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Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that Western liberal democracy has not worked for Africa. Obasanjo said liberal democracy does not take into account the continent’s history, culture and tradition. The former President explained that the Western style of democracy failed in Africa because it does not consider the views of the majority of the people. He stated this ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked youths to reject the toga of leaders of tomorrow, saying the youths are already the leaders of today. Obasanjo made this call at a Presidential Youth Retreat, themed “Contributing to the Green Economy,” held at the Youth Development Centre in Abeokuta on Monday. He asked youths to go all out to remove any barrier ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he did not plan to be a politician but became one by accident. The ex-President said this while addressing a group of youths, under the aegis of Africa for Africa Youth Initiative (A4A), at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. He said the love he has for his ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has  said the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, had proved his critics wrong by turning out to be a result-oriented governor, his mastery of dance notwithstanding. Adeleke said he had achieved within the first 100 days in office what many could not do in their four years in governments. They both spoke at the 16th Harvest ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said no member of his cabinet had the authority to approve more than N25 million without his consent when he was leading the country between 1999 and 2007. Obasanjo said this in an exclusive interview with TheCable, while challenging the former minister of power and steel, Olu Agunloye, where he got the authority to award ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has flayed lawmakers for determining their pay contrary to the constitutional provision that wages of public officers should be fixed by the Revenue Mobilisation Fiscal and Allocation Commission (RMFAC). Obasanjo described the action as not only immoral but unconstitutional. He spoke at the 60th anniversary of legal luminary Afe Babalola’s call to Bar. The event, which ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, is still the candidate for a better Nigeria. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the then candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress and now-president, Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the election. The announcement was ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday described the just concluded elections in the country as a painful show of shame, saying efforts should be made by patriotic Nigerians to correct it and not to allow it repeat itself. Obasanjo also said he was too old to keep quiet and watch the country slid into dystopia and that efforts were required from ...

A top stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamu Garba, has explained why the  former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP According to him, the former leader took this step s because ge can easily bully him to do his biddings. Garba also claimed Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of ...

Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari does not really understand the economy. Obasanjo said this in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Thursday, when taking part in an interactive session with the Experiential Leadership in Africa (TEL-Africa). The former president was speaking on his support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, ...