A former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has questioned the alleged progress Nigeria is making under Muhammadu Buhari.
In an interview with Premium times, Obasanjo accused Buhari’s government of taking the country towards disaster.
Obasanjo complained that the present political arrangement in the country seems to favour a certain region.
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The former President has never hidden his disappointment in the current administration.
In the 2019 general election, Obasanjo attacked Buhari and endorsed the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Atiku Abubakar.
“I think we have no choice but to be on the path for sustainable development,” Obasanjo said.
“The progress we are making may be questionable. Is it fast enough? Is it steady enough? Is it stable enough? Are we taking two steps forward and one step back or one step side-way?
“You can question that, but we have no choice but to be on (the) path for sustainable development. Any other thing will be a disaster. In fact, the pace at which we are going now is tending more and more toward disaster and instability and unsustainability.”
Obasanjo said due to poor management, Nigeria no longer has foreign investors as they have no confidence in the nation’s economy.
“The problem is that we are just not doing what we should be doing,” he said.
“Nobody has that confidence, and we cannot develop Nigeria without that confidence in our economy. Both for domestic investors and foreign investors.”
Obansajo said the current leadership arrangement of the country sends wrong signal to a multi-ethnic nation like Nigeria.
“I think there is a presumption in our constitution that our system will bring out competent leaders devoid of extremism, religious or tribal bigotry.
Leaders who understand what it takes to hold the country together and put it in high gear for development, unity and an inclusive and shared society,” he said.
“These are assumptions. And if these assumptions come true, what is meant to be achieved in our country will be achieved. But the kind of situation you have now cannot allow those assumptions to become reality. Now you have a situation where three top officials of government will be from only two northern zones. Ahmad Lawan (who has been pencilled down as senate president) is from the north-east, the acting chief justice of Nigeria is from the north-east, The president of the country is from the north-west. They are all from what we call the core north. How can you have that kind of arrangement and then be absolutely insensitive to it (lack of geographical diversity)?
“So the prescription that our constitution makes of the kind of leadership that should emerge, we have failed to achieve that with the present leadership we have in place. The Constitution expects the executive to care for the welfare and security of every Nigerian. But in the present situation, they don’t seem to care.”
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