- Safiu Kehinde
Former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has heaped blames on President Bola Tinubu for Nigeria’s failing state, labelling him as ‘Baba-go-slow’.
Obasanjo threw the shades at Tinubu in a statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Saturday.
Akinyemi delivered the statement on behalf of Obasanjo as his keynote address at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University New Haven Connecticut, USA.
As quoted in the address, the former President claimed that “As the world can see and understand, Nigeria’s situation is bad,”
Decrying the spate of immorality and corruption, Obasanjo faulted Tinubu who he labelled as Baba-go-slow and Emilokan.
“Nigeria Situation: As we can see and understand, Nigeria’s situation is bad.
“The more the immorality and corruption of a nation, the more the nation sinks into chaos, insecurity, conflict, discord, division, disunity, depression, youth restiveness, confusion, violence, and underdevelopment.
“That’s the situation mostly in Nigeria in the reign of Baba-go-slow and Emilokan.
“The failing state status of Nigeria is confirmed and glaringly indicated and manifested for every honest person to see through the consequences of the level of our pervasive corruption, mediocrity, immorality, misconduct, mismanagement, perversion, injustice, incompetence and all other forms of iniquity. But yes, there is hope.” He said.
Obasanjo cited the classic treatise published in 1983, called ‘The Trouble with Nigeria’ by Chinua Achebe where he admitted that “The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.”