Former Nigeria President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has given a dire assessment of Nigeria stating that the country is sitting perilously on a keg of gunpowder.
Obasanjo said the country is pushing many citizens into poverty because of poor implementation of good policies and that over the past 63 years, the nation not lived up to expectations as the much-taunted giant of Africa.
The former president spoke in Abuja on Monday, July 24 in a keynote address at the public presentation of a book titled, “Reclaiming the Jewel of Africa,” written by Olusegun Aganga, a former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, who had also served as Minister of Finance .
Obasanjo, who addressed the audience at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, virtually, said even though “Nigeria is a potential jewel of Africa, if you want to put it that way, we have never attained that position. Can you reclaim what you have never had or attained?”
The book, which offered a “blueprint for taking Nigeria and Africa from potential to posterity”, was launched by President Bola Tinubu, who was represented by his Special Adviser on Monetary Policy, Mr. Wale Edun
