Do you agree? “It is not difficult to govern Nigeria” – Obasanjo

Do you agree? “It is not difficult to govern Nigeria” – Obasanjo: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that Nigeria is not difficult to govern, blaming the country’s economic crisis on lack of good leadership. Do you agree? “It is not difficult to govern Nigeria” – Obasanjo

He acknowledged that the country is complex and one needs to understand it well to govern it properly.


Obasanjo stated this on Wednesday, September 4, in Lagos, during the first memorial lecture in memory of the late Akintola Williams, themed: “Dynamics of Leadership: Current Realities and Way Forward.” Do you agree? “It is not difficult to govern Nigeria” – Obasanjo

He said:

“I always say Nigeria is a complex country. You must understand that. But Nigeria is not a difficult country to manage. You have to be honest with yourself, Nigeria and your God,”

“When I was there, I did everything I should do for Nigeria and I can beat my chest and say that.

“I took over the affairs of Nigeria as elected president with N3.7 billion in reserves and we were spending N3.5 billion to service debt, so I decided we must seek debt relief and I went out for it, even though we were the fifth country in all exporting in the world and we got debt relief.

“Not only did we get relief from a quantum debt of N3.36 billion, we came to a quantum debt of N3.6 billion and I left with over N25 billion in what we call excess crude, that is, the money we saved from the budget and what we actually received and we had a reserve of over N45 billion.”