Nigeria is not a giant of Africa anyone says Obasanjo

A former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said the u . S . A . Has now not lived as much as its label as the massive of Africa.

He additionally said Nigerians should no longer blame God for his or her issues but themselves.

Obasanjo spoke on Thursday on the release of ‘The Letterman’, a e book authored via Musikilu Mojeed, Premium Times editor-in-leader.

The e-book makes a speciality of letters written by using Obasanjo.

He stated when Nigeria won independence, the expectancy become for the kingdom to be known as “a massive inside the sun” and not the “large of Africa” as it’s miles being stated now.

He, however, said Nigeria has now not lived to expectations.

“When Nigeria became unbiased, it was a giant in the solar. That became the expectancy. Not a large even in Africa. A massive within the solar. That became the expectancy of the sector approximately Nigeria,” Obasanjo stated.

“Have we lived as much as it? No. If we haven’t, why haven’t we? I assume we probable don’t admire what we have as a rustic and I accept as true with if we do respect it and make appropriate use of it, we would do better than we are now.

“I believe the right training should be found out. We have all that we need to have. God has given us all that we want to have. That we are not doing what we have to do, God isn’t always responsible and we should blame ourselves.”