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Obasanjo explained that he believes in one Nigeria above ethnic affiliation.
 Obasanjo
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has addressed the criticism
that followed his statement not supporting Yoruba Nation agitation.
According to him, he owes nobody any apology for believing in one Nigeria and not Oduduwa Republic.
Speaking at an event in Abuja, the former president said every
Nigerian has the solution to the challenges confronting the country.
He, however, cautioned Nigerians against imposing their own solutions on others.
According to Obasanjo: “I always say this, each and every one
of us has solutions to Nigeria’s problems but each and every one of us
is wrong when you bring your own and you think it is perfect; now listen
to the other man. But one thing I believe we all have in common —
Nigeria.
“I have never used Yoruba nation and I will never because I
believe that my Nigerianess is bigger than my Yorubaness and none should
stand in the way of each other.
“For me, my Nigerianess is very important because I am more
than what I should have been as a Nigerian than as an Oduduwa Republic
man and I believe that, that should be the case for every one of us. Why
should the accident of my place of birth be a hindrance for me as a
human being, first of all, and as a Nigerian?
“I owe no apology to anybody that I feel that what God has
given to us in Nigeria belongs to all of us in Nigeria and anyone who
feels otherwise, good luck to him.
“The point is that we must aggregate, if you were born in a
place and there is a particular treasure in that place, you must enjoy
more of it than others in other parts of Nigeria. And that, I believe,
whether it is stone with which the Nigerian railway and Lagos board were
built, which came from Abeokuta which nobody paid anything for in the
colonial days, or the coal in Enugu which some of it was used to drive
the locomotive and whatever, the point is it is all a gift of God to all
Nigerians, humanity, and the gift of God, I believe we must understand
them and know how we really manage them.” |
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