Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, issued a warning over the results of the country's future elections in 2023.
Speaking on Wednesday, September 23, when Reverend Daniel T. Okoh, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), paid him a visit at his penthouse residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, the former president said the 2023 elections could make or break Nigeria.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo stated that "everyone would regret it" if clergy permitted the political class to destroy Nigeria.
It read as follows:
"If you stand for justice and equity and the truth, then politicians won't be able to manipulate us. I say this with all of my responsibility because if we don't watch it, politicians will ruin our country and we will all regret it.
''You religious leaders have a big part to play in helping us figure out where to look for salvation. I believe it is a historical error to claim that politics is not for the righteous (especially in Christendom). The unrighteous will smear the righteous with the unrighteousness they will bring into politics and will have nowhere to go if we remove the righteous from politics and leave it to the unjust.
And if we don't pay attention to the upcoming election, it might make or break Nigeria. And I hope it will help Nigeria.
Obasanjo commended the CAN President for working to advance peace in the nation through his ties with Saad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto.
Director Olusegun Nigerian politician and military leader Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR (Yoruba: Olgun Básanj, born 5 March 1938), formerly held the positions of head of state from 1976 to 1979 and president from 1999 to 2007. He is an ideologically committed Nigerian nationalist who served in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 1999 to 2015 and the African Democratic Congress since 2018. (ADC).
Obasanjo had much of his education in Abeokuta, Ogun State, despite being born in the hamlet of Ibogun-Olaogun to a farming family of the Yoruba Owu branch. After enlisting in the Nigerian Army and specializing in engineering, he was stationed in the Congo, Britain, and India and eventually attained the rank of major. He played a significant role in the Nigerian Civil War's battle against Biafran separatists in the later half of the 1960s, accepting their surrender in 1970. A military coup created a junta with Obasanjo as a member of the ruling triumvirate in 1975. The Supreme Military Council named Obasanjo as president after the leader of the triumvirate, Murtala Muhammad, was killed the following year. Obasanjo continued Murtala's policy by implementing budget cuts and expanding access to free education. He also placed a strong focus on his assistance for organizations fighting white minority rule in southern Africa, further aligning Nigeria with the United States. Obasanjo, who was dedicated to reestablishing democracy, presided over the 1979 elections before handing over leadership of Nigeria to Shehu Shagari, the newly elected civilian president. After retiring, he settled in Ota, Ogun, where he started farming, wrote four books, and participated in global campaigns to put a stop to numerous hostilities in Africa.
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