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From Inumidun Ojelade, Ibadan<\/p>\n

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday took a swipe at the younger generation of leaders in the country over poor performance records, integrity and probity, saying with such unfortunate developments, Nigeria is jinxed, and even cursed.
\u201cIt is sad that after 53 years of independence, we have no leader that we can commend. Then we are jinxed and cursed; we should all go to hell.
\u201cThe problem in Africa is that when one person takes over, he would not see any good thing that his predecessor did. Let us condemn but with caution\u201d, Obasanjo said while delivering a lecture in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.
The former president was the Keynote Speaker at the 4th Annual Ibadan Sustainable Development Summit organised by Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, in collaboration with African Sustainable Development Network.
Chief Obasanjo, who spoke on issues of poor leadership in Africa, said the crop of younger generation of leaders in the country failed the citizens.
He specifically noted his Vice, Atiku Abubakar; former governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; former Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Salisu Buhari; former Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, and others as younger generation of leaders who failed the country.
He said during his administration as president, \u201cwe had some people who were under 50 years (of age) in leadership positions. One of them was James Ibori; where is he today? One of them was Alamieyeseigha; where is he today? Lucky Igbinedion; where is he today?
\u201cThe youngest was the ( former House of Representatives) Speaker, Buhari; you can still recall what happened to him.
\u201cYou said Bola Tinubu is your master. What Buhari did was not anything worse than what Bola Tinubu did. \u201cWe got them (Buhari and others) impeached.
\u201cBut in this part of the world (South-west), some people covered up the other man. The man claimed he went to Government College, Ibadan; but the (former) governor (of Oyo state) went to Government College and packed all the documents so that they would not know that he (Tinubu) did not go there.
\u201cI wanted someone who would succeed me, so I took Atiku. Within a year, I started seeing the type of man Atiku is. And you want me to get him there?
\u201cI once went to Tanzania because Julius Nyerere recognised Biafra. He told me not to mind his aides and others in government. They would say they have one house in town but their five-year old sons and daughters would have houses all over.
\u201cSome of you who are condemning the leadership would get there tomorrow and it will be a different story. Only very few are actually good.
\u201cAbacha, my predecessor got $ 750 million. Through our lawyer in Switzerland we recovered $ 1.25 billion and the lawyer still said there is probably still another $ 1 billion to be recovered.
\u201cIn 1979 we had 20 new ships specially built for Nigeria. When I came back 20 years after, the national shipping line had been liquidated.
\u201cThe whole thing is not just about leadership. If we talk about good leadership you should also talk about good followers. If you talk about human rights you should also talk about human duties and obligations\u201d, Obasanjo who went down memory lane stressed.
Speaking on \u201cLeadership in Africa\u2019s Quest for Sustainable Development\u201d, he said the topic was timely, coming at a time when humanity as a whole was in search of innovative ways of managing globally-shared challenges.<\/p>\n

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