Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said he owes nobody
any apology for believing in one Nigeria and not Oduduwa Republic.
Obasanjo explained that he believes in one Nigeria above
ethnic affiliation.
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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