Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said he has reserved further comment regarding this month’s general election until a winner emerges on the 14th of this month.
He made the comment at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, while meeting with some royal fathers from Egba Traditional Council who were attending a seminar on how to generate wealth from waste.
The initiator of the Waste to Wealth Seminar, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, the Towulade of Akinale, in a chat with journalists said the programme was to avail royal fathers the opportunity to learn new ways of generating wealth so that they in turn will educate their subjects back home.
Obasanjo said he has made enough comments regarding the polls both in speech and body language, adding “if anybody is still looking to me for comment, the person probably has not been around for sometime now. I have spoken enough. Our efforts start February 14. We should go and vote that day and vote right. I will talk after the election.”
Obasanjo said Nigeria is so blessed in both human and material resources that it only takes the right people and the political will to change things positively.
He lamented the situation where teachers and civil servants are being owed salaries for up to six months, specifically citing the example of Benue State.
Obasanjo also said he had reserved further comment on politics till after the election, when he was in Kano to commission a flyover bridge named after him by Kano governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, at Kofar Nassarawa and visited the permanent site of the second university built by Kwankwaso, North West University, Kano.
Obasanjo said God is kind to Nigeria, and went philosophical by quoting Shakespeare, saying “The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves underneath.”
It would be recalled that in recent time, Obasanjo has made statements that are hurtful to the re-election ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Disagreement between the two came into public domain in December 2013 when Obasanjo in a letter titled ‘Before It Is Too Late’ accused Jonathan of corruption, incompetence and keeping of a ‘hit squad’.
I Will Not Talk On Politics Again Until After February Election – Obasanjo
The former Nigeria’s president, General Olisegun Obasanjo, GCFR has yesterday in Kano said that he will not talk on politics until after the general election in February 2015.
Obasanjo congratulated the governor Kwankwaso for his accomplishments in infrastructure and education development.
He said he hoped to see governor Kwankwaso in near future reaching the peak of his political career for what he assured that he will benefit fellow Nigerians greatly.
On Kwankwasos foreign scholarship to state indegene, free education and its upliftment, Mr. Obasanjo also expressed optimism that very soon Kano indigenes will be seen in all sectors of human endeavour across the state.
Obasanjo disclosed that he believed second coming has helped Kwankwaso in achieving a lot in his second coming, same as it helped him as he was the former head of state and later elected president, including three and half years prison experience.
Earlier, governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso thanked the former president for finding time to commissioned the bridge and identify with Kano State government and Kano people.
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