Nigeria leaders bad decisions put us in mess — Obasanjo

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, told the present crop of Nigeria leaders to stop blaming God for the country’s woes, but rather blame themselves.

He insisted that God did not create Nigeria to be poor, but the bad decisions of Nigerian leaders had left the country in its current bad situation.

Obasanjo said this in his 2021 message to Nigerians, at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The former President, who lamented the insecurity and poor economic state of the country, noted that 2020 had been a challenging year for Nigerians, “but in all things, we must give thanks to God.”

His words: “We do not have to blame God for our situation, we have to blame ourselves. Nigeria does not have to be poor; no Nigerian must go to bed hungry.

“That we have a situation like this is a choice of our leaders and followers alike, my prayer is that God will make the year 2021 a better year for all of us, but it will not happen without work.

“We have gone from one form of insecurity to the bad economy and on the top of it is the COVID-19. Some people, either for insecurity or the bad economy or for COVID-19, have gone to the grave beyond, I will say may the souls of those who have departed, particularly in this year of challenges, rest in perfect peace.

“But what then do we do the rest of us? As I said, we should thank God. I like the motto of a school which says ‘work and pray’ some people say it should be prayer and work, but it doesn’t matter to me in what order I put it, but prayer must go with work and work must go with prayer.

“And I believe we need to work hard in this country as we pray hard so that the coming year, the year 2021 will be a glorious year for us, but it will not happen unless we work to make it happen.” Culled from Vanguard