The Senior Pastor of Latter Rain
Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has said that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo
assembled the most competent economic team in Nigeria’s history but handed over
Nigeria to “a legacy of lame and limping successor governments”.
Bakare said this while delivering
a lecture titled “Transforming Political Dynamics in Africa: The Role of the
Diaspora” in Glasgow, Scotland.
The clergyman noted that the
action by the Obasanjo’s administration “first sunk Nigeria into a
constitutional crisis and then oversaw the plundering of the nation’s wealth in
a free-for-all corruption jamboree.”
He, however, applauded the former
President for his developmental strides recorded between May 1999 and March
2007 by the economic team, “comprising the likes of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala;
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; Dr. Charles Chukwuma Soludo and Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,
among others.”
Bakare described Obasanjo’s team
as, “The most competent ever assembled by any government in Nigeria’s history
till date.”
The clergyman also expressed
dissatisfaction with what followed, stating that, “one would have thought that
this brilliant team that oversaw the Nigerian dimension of ‘Africa Rising’
would be given priority in the succession plan of then President, Olusegun
Obasanjo.
“Instead, after a botched third
term agenda, the Obasanjo administration bequeathed to Nigeria a legacy of lame
and limping successor governments that first sunk Nigeria into a constitutional
crisis and then oversaw the plundering of the nation’s wealth in a free-for-all
corruption jamboree,” he stated.
He said, “Unknown to many
observers, in 2015, following the lifting of the embargo, I worked closely
behind the scenes with the two leading candidates in the presidential elections
at the time, then President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP and General Muhammadu
Buhari of the APC, towards ensuring that the election results were upheld and
that the transition was smooth. I saw at close quarters how the fate of a
nation could hang on a single decision.
“Therefore, believe me when I
tell you that we escaped disintegration by the whiskers. Now, four years after
that escape, our nation is once again headed on a collision course with
probable instability unless the tensed atmosphere associated with our four-year
electocratic insanity is managed with utmost wisdom.
“Once again, I have found myself
in the inner workings of the chaotic political process and I can tell you that
we live in precarious times. How long can our nation stand if we continue along
this path? Is it not time to address the foundations once and for all?”
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Bakari, u are pastor face ur work. Obasanjo, can't tell and show us who will rule Nigeria, after, spending 3trillion on power without result, he is still showing himself,aru!!!!
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