Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said
Nigerians have no business with poverty considering the vast resources in the country.
Gatekeepers News reports that Obasanjo made the statement on Friday at a dinner organised in his honour by Abia government in Umuahia, the state capital.
The former president said Nigeria is blessed with all its needs but continues to face challenges due to the mismanagement of these resources.
He said, “Nigerians have no business with poverty because God has given us all that we need.”
“If we are mismanaging what God has given us, we do not have God to blame, we have ourselves to blame.”
Obasanjo commended Alex Otti, Governor of Abia, for his efforts in transforming the state, noting that if 18 Governors perform effectively, “we will build the country up”.
The former president added that personal differences are irrelevant when it comes to national development, adding that his main concern is the quality of governance and the well-being of the people.
He said, “For me, whether you don’t greet me or I greet you and you don’t answer, what is important to me is that the people of this country are getting what they deserve and what they deserve is good governance.”
Otti while speaking, thanked Obasanjo for his support, adding that his administration had embarked on massive reforms in the education sector to improve access to quality education in the state.
He said, “Once you have vision, you have to keep to it. It took us ten years to get here, the two elections we contested from 2015 to 2019, we won clearly but they were all stolen.”
“A lot of people had given up hope and said it wasn’t going to work, but I was sure that I heard clearly from God.”
