Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has refuted long-standing claims that he tried to increase his presidency past two phrases, insisting he by no means sought such a transfer.
Obasanjo made the remarks on Wednesday through the democracy dialogue hosted by the Goodluck Jonathan Basis in Accra. He harassed that no proof exists to again the hypothesis.
“I’m not a idiot. If I wished a 3rd time period, I understand how to go about it. And there’s no Nigerian lifeless or alive that might say I referred to as him and advised him I wished a 3rd time period,” Obasanjo mentioned.
The previous president argued that securing debt aid for Nigeria throughout his administration was a a lot harder feat than pursuing a tenure extension.
“I preserve telling them that, look, if I wished to get debt aid, which is harder than getting a 3rd time period and I received it, if I wished a 3rd time period, I’d have gotten it too,” he added.
Obasanjo additionally cautioned in opposition to leaders clinging to energy, stressing that such behaviour displays a false sense of indispensability.
“I do know that the perfect is completed when you find yourself younger, ideally suited and vibrant and dynamic. If you end up ‘kuje kuje’ you don’t have the perfect. However some folks imagine that until they’re there, no one else,” he mentioned.
“They may even let you know that they haven’t received anyone else. I imagine that that could be a sin in opposition to God, as a result of if God takes you away, which God can do anytime, then any person else will come, and that any person else might do higher or might do worse.”
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