Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has admitted that his generation has done a lot of wrong.
Obasanjo who was two-time president from 1999 to 2007 and Nigeria’s military head of state from 1976 to 1979, has asked Nigerian youths to make it uncomfortable for old leaders to remain in government.
He diclosed this during a virtual interview with Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies, Toyin Omoyeni Falola.
He said; “Things are bad in the country, Nigeria’s fortune may change when youths step up.”
“Youths have everything going for them and I don’t want you to feel discouraged. Things are bad in Nigeria but I believe it is only for a short while because it depends on you.”
“Whatever my generation might have done wrong and I will be the first to admit that my generation has done a lot of wrong, but it is for your generation to do it better.”
“Don’t just sit down and complain. Sitting down and complaining will make you be on the same level and you have to get what I called critical mass of likeminded people who will be ready to say let us bring about the change. You can bring about the change if you get critical mass of people that are ready to slug it out.”
“When people say when will these old hags go out of the way? I tell them they won’t go out of the way, you have to make them go out of the way. They won’t voluntarily go out of the way, you have to make it uncomfortable for them; I am not talking of violence but bringing pressure to bear to make it uncomfortable for them to go out of the way.”