Olusegun Obasanjo

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo appeals to young Nigerians to stop inheriting other people's prejudices and enemies.

While not forgetting the past, let us put the past behind us for it not to continue to mar our present and our future and that of the coming generation. Your future, my future, the future of grandchildren and great grandchildren is in your hands. My dear young men and women, let me assure you that there are only two tribes of people in Nigeria a tribe of good people and a tribe of bad people. First, no group is faultless; second, for the greatness of the whole, we need one another as constituents of the whole; third, we cannot be talking and working for Africa’s integration and for Nigeria’s disintegration at the same time. The future of Nigeria is in the same manner in your hands and literally so. And let’s praise and thank God for preserving the oneness of Nigeria. Others like General Gowon and Enahoro became national leaders at 33 and 27 respectively and General Gowon at the helms of leadership of Nigeria at the highest level. I have interacted with the major contestants and I find it interesting that, in one form or the other, each of them claims to want to do what I did during my Presidency and to take Nigeria back to where it was at the height of my Presidency and immediately after. Others like all of us have what they can contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria collectively. Mind you, I reiterate that no human being is an angel let alone a Messiah, but there are elements of these attributes and on comparative basis and by measure of what we know of, and what some of us have experienced from the front-runners, we must assess judiciously and choose wisely. Let me say straight away that ‘Emi Lokan’ (My turn) and ‘I have paid my dues’ are one and the same thing and are wrong attitude and mentality for the leadership of Nigeria now. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley.

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on New Year's Day, endorsed Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the forthcoming general elections.

obj that could not fix the road to his home town and PO that could not turn Anambra around. OBJ that could not fix the road to his home town and PO that could not turn Anambra around. He request for the youths to wake up and take charge. He requests for the youths to wake up and take charge. This is the highlight of Obasanjo’s endorsement of HE Peter Obi. Nigeria desperately needs a president that listens. He never wanted anyone to get that. I respect & continue to respect General Olusegun Obasanjo. In a Twitter thread, Garba wrote, “It is a well-known fact that Obasanjo never wanted any Yoruba man to grow above him while he’s still alive. [January 1, 2023] He is a political paperweight.” May God bless Chief Olusegun Aremu Okikiolu Mathew Obasanjo – Posterity will remember this bold step and public endorsement.”

Former Nigeria president Olusegun Obasanjo don tell kontri pipo to use dia head as dem prepare to make dia choice for di 2023 presidential election.

Peter Obi: Former Head of State say true-true saint no dey among di presidential candidates but e get one pesin wey still better pass di rest. "E get pipo wey fit call am to order wen necessary. “Among all of dem na Peter Obi get di edge.” Challenge to Nigerian youth: Di former president say Nigerian youth dem dey underrate dem sef becos dem no know di kain power dem get. “Di power to change dey una hand. E say youth dem suppose consider di over 20million pipo wey get education, skills, empowerment, employment and di welfare and well-being of Nigerians.

•Says former president can't win his polling unit. Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja. The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ...

“Chief Obasanjo’s endorsement is not a political currency Mr. He is a political paperweight. Onanuga noted: “We take a particular notice of the part of the endorsement statement where Chief Obasanjo said none of the presidential candidates is a Saint. “We want to state here that Chief Obasanjo is not a good judge of character. “We pity Peter Gregory Obi as we are confident that Chief Obasanjo can not win his polling unit and ward in Abeokuta for Obi in the coming Presidential election on 25 February, 2023. He said in 2007 Obasanjo declared the polls a do or die affair after he failed in his bid to amend the constitution to have a third term.

Nigeria's former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has openly declared his support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP),as his preferred.

His endorsement is not a political currency Peter Obi can spend anywhere in Nigeria because he is not a political force, even in his part of the country. “We respect the democratic right of former President Obasanjo to support and endorse any candidate of his choice in any election. Over the years, Chief Obasanjo has also convinced himself that integrity, honesty and all good virtues begin and end with him.” I have made a pact with Nigerians and I will not leave any of my promises unfulfilled. We pity Obi as we are confident that Obasanjo can not win his polling unit and ward in Abeokuta for Obi in the coming Presidential election on 25 February, 2023,” the PCC quipped. We have a unique opportunity to correct ourselves by ourselves for the good of ourselves. It is a year we all must unite against the continued abuse of our nation’s democracy and economy. “We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley. “I call on Nigerians to hold me accountable to my promises for a better nation, when I am elected. The former President said “One other important point to make about Peter is that he is a needle with thread attached to it from North and South and he may not get lost. I will not deny such positions since I have worked with all of them directly and indirectly in government. He described the last seven and a half years under President Muhammadu Buhari as tough for majority of citizens.

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo appeals to young Nigerians to stop inheriting other people's prejudices and enemies.

“Cooperation is for each man to be true to his religious belief and to reaffirm the basic principles of his particular creed. Your future, my future, the future of grandchildren and great grandchildren is in your hands. My dear young men and women, let me assure you that there are only two tribes of people in Nigeria a tribe of good people and a tribe of bad people. Let us develop national ethos and national characteristics that can take us collectively to the promised. The future of Nigeria is in the same manner in your hands and literally so. While not forgetting the past, let us put the past behind us for it not to continue to mar our present and our future and that of the coming generation. Others like General Gowon and Enahoro became national leaders at 33 and 27 respectively and General Gowon at the helms of leadership of Nigeria at the highest level. I have interacted with the major contestants and I find it interesting that, in one form or the other, each of them claims to want to do what I did during my Presidency and to take Nigeria back to where it was at the height of my Presidency and immediately after. Others like all of us have what they can contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria collectively. Mind you, I reiterate that no human being is an angel let alone a Messiah, but there are elements of these attributes and on comparative basis and by measure of what we know of, and what some of us have experienced from the front-runners, we must assess judiciously and choose wisely. Let me say straight away that ‘Emi Lokan’ (My turn) and ‘I have paid my dues’ are one and the same thing and are wrong attitude and mentality for the leadership of Nigeria now. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday endorsed the Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi, saying he had an edge over other presidential candidates ...

He declared, “Prince Adewole Adebayo undeniably meets the Southern presidency advocacy of many as led by the former president and many other prominent national leaders. As a party, we are not in any way disturbed by the endorsement because we know it will amount to nothing.’’ The nation requires a steady hand, a man of experience and vision to address these challenges. “In 2007, he declared the polls a do-or-die affair after he failed in his bid to amend our constitution to have a third term. The endorsement of an individual no matter how highly placed does not translate to victory at the polls. Otherwise, we will be fed with, “The President says” and we will neither see nor hear him directly as we should,’’ he warned. Except that he made it known formally in his New Year message, any discerning political watcher in Nigeria knows that Chief Obasanjo’s preference for Peter Obi is expected. “Others like all of us have what they can collectively contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from the mountain top to the valley. Such a government must have representation from all sectors of our national life – public, private, civil society, professional, labour, employers, and the diaspora. “The vigour, energy, agility, dynamism and outreach that the job of leadership of Nigeria requires at the very top may not be provided as a septuagenarian or older. “In other words, he has people who can pull his ears, if and when necessary.

Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Charles Aniagwu says the party was not bothered by former President ...

“We are convinced that Nigerians would likely look in our direction because our presidential candidate and his running mate have got the credentials to be able to position our country and recover it from where we are at the moment. “Most Nigerians do know based on the records of Atiku Abubakar and his running mate Dr Ifeanyi Okowa in the last seven years that these are the individuals that have what it takes to be able to address the challenges of today. “We knew it wasn’t going to be a roller-coaster and that is why we have continued to interface with Nigerians across the six geopolitical zones. “In this contest, nobody is an underdog and we do have respect for all candidates contesting this election but we do believe that we stand taller than any of the contestants. “Democracy allows you the latitude to make choices and he has made his own choice and we do believe that most Nigerians are already making their own choices and from what we have seen Atiku is already favoured to win this election. “We don’t have any problem with Obasanjo endorsing anybody because that is his democratic right and you can’t take it away from him but Nigerians at the end of the day will make the ultimate choice of who governs them for the purpose of recovering Nigeria from where we are at the moment,”

In reaction to recent endorsement of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party by Olusegun Obasanjo, a pressure group, The Patriots Roundtable, has.

Icons do not thrash in the mud nor do they play God lest they risk the diminution and the ultimate censure of Robert Frost’s Hired Man: the fate of having “nothing to look backward to with pride . Icons must always hover above the fray in eclipsed neutrality, never stampeding into the conflict in loud, rambunctious noisome intrusion of an un-instructed neophyte,” the group said. His flawed , biased partisan intervention in the choice of the Nigerian presidency betrays a puzzling insistent on self-perpetual relevance.