Former President Olusegun Obasnajo has accused Nigerian political leadership of lacking patriotism, and they should be facing long term prison sentences or even execution for failing the country.
General Obasanjo rtd was speaking in Abeokuta where he received six members of the House of Representatives, and co-sponsors of the bill on a single six-year term and rotation between the North at his presidential library.
“So yes we have to rethink our democracy but the character of people in government must change. With all due respect, most of those in government should right now be behind bars or in gallows,” Obasanjo stated.
Obasanjo who takes credit for paying off the country’s external debts during his regime between 1999-2007 said successive governments failed to build on the foundation he laid.
“The issue for me if we get it right, whether we have a single term of six years or two terms of four years is that we must decarbonise our brains and mentality.
“Look if you give him a period of a single term of six years, he can go ahead and still do the evil he would have done in a case of two terms of four years. The only difference is that he would have done that within the period of six years and not four years and that is if he is not reelected for another four years.
“To me, this is not our problem. Our main problem is ourselves and until we take care of ourselves, if we like, let us adopt a single term of six years, one term of four years among others with the same mentality and same way of doing things, nothing will change.”
Not Yet...Tinubu and Obasanjo