Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians not to vote for any presidential candidate lying that some persons acquired forms for them. Obasanjo explains that the country is presently having leadership problems.
Recall that presidential aspirants under the auspices of PDP ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; former Senate President Bukola Saraki; Governor Aminu Tambuwal; former governor Peter Obi, are among those who said nomination forms were purchased for them.
Obasanjo made this statement when Speaking in Lagos during a colloquium with the theme, “The African Christian Leadership: Radical Transformation in Unsettled Times” to mark the 61st birthday of Pastor Itua Ighodalo, Obasanjo said Nigeria’s problem is entirely about leadership.
He said Nigeria’s constitution which many have faulted and attributes the country’s challenges to was drafted by the best brains gathered by the military at the time.
“Today, they are paying N40m. Some of them (aspirants) even said it is some youths who bought it for them. In fact anybody who would come out to tell you such a lie, you shouldn’t vote for him. Which youths gathered N40m? If you want to buy it, buy it and tell us. You don’t need to lie to us.”
The former President said the problems confronting Nigeria at the moment can only be surmounted by good leadership, noting that Nigeria needed a change of leadership.
“If you say, ‘what is wrong with Nigeria’, leadership. If you say, ‘what do you have to do about Nigeria’, leadership. If you say, ‘where are we taking Nigeria? Leadership.’
He added that leadership and not constitution is Nigeria’s problems.
