• Nigeria Needs Critical Mass Of Citizens To Fight Corruption – Obasanjo – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

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    Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria has suggested that for the fight against corruption to record success, Nigeria will require a critical mass of committed citizens to achieve success.

    The former head of state and president of Nigeria who spoke as guest on the popular monthly interview discourse, BOILING POINT ARENA, on Sunday night, said the fight against corruption should be passed from one regime to the others if success must be recorded, saying bad leadership promotes corruption.

    Boiling Point, a monthly programme is broadcast live on three radio stations, Sweet 107.1FM, 103.7 Eagle FM in Abeokuta and WASH 94.9FM, Lagos. It was hosted by a media professional and public relations strategist, Dr Ayo Arowojolu.

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    Chief Obasanjo said, “A leader with bad character will buy everybody with money that plays an important role because the leader has entrenched poverty that will make the governed to fall for anything.

    “Those who are collecting money from bad leaders to perpetrate corruption are only mortgaging their future and future of their children. We have to go back to the begining when communities express worries about the source of sudden wealth among the people. If the source of the wealth of an individual is in doubt, nobody cares to look in the direction of the person because he cannot be trusted.”

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    He advocated for moral rearmament and called on the leadership to fallback to the teachings of the books, saying that everybody is to be blamed as corruption continues to thrive in the country.

    Reflecting on his prison experience, Chief Obasanjo said his finding behind the walls among young prisoners showed that “Everybody is to be blamed; the churches, the mosques, schools, communities, state and federal government, the entire world and the social media that does not also help the situation.”

    He warned Nigerians to be wary of people that are professional politicians, saying they have always fallen for anything that comes through their ways, saying that the country needs transformational leaders as exemplified in Egypt and Rwanda.

    Speaking on the qualities good leaders should possess, the former president said leadership positions should not be thrown at every Dick, Tom and Harry, saying records, background, and good character must be considered before appointing or electing a leader.

    Obasanjo, who denied any involvement in the military coups led by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Chukwuma ‘Kaduna’ Nzeogwu and the one that removed General Yakubu Gowon from office, revealed that information about Nzeogwu got to him after his return from overseas training and too late for him to do anything meaningful while he appealed for bloodless takeover in Gowon’s removal.

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