{"id":39585,"date":"2021-02-01T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=39585"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:28:13","slug":"nigeria-has-leadership-deficit-despite-abundance-of-people-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=39585","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria has leadership deficit despite abundance of people \u2013Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that Nigeria has a deficit where leadership is concerned, despite having abundance of people capable of assuming such a role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obasanjo<\/a> who stated this on Sunday during a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, also noted that technocrats to lift the country and the African continent up were not lacking in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking further during the interview, Obasanjo who ruled Nigeria between 1999 and 2007 said that leadership needs to provide the right environment and incentive no matter what anyone wants to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cNigeria has no scarcity of people to lift the country and Africa up. But Nigeria is deficit in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, lack of understanding and knowledge of leadership has made it impossible for administrations to build on the achievements of their predecessors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, Obasanjo surmised, \u201cAfter a government had made two steps of progress forward, the successors moved two steps to the side and one step backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that when he was President, \u201cThe CBN governor (Chukwuma Soludo<\/a>) called me one day and said Mr. President Congratulations. $80 million came into Nigeria: not from oil or export, but from investors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obasanjo said he told Chukwuma that he was not satisfied, but was aiming for $100 million a day. However, only $3 billion came into the country in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd Africa, South of the Sahara, got $32 billion in 2019. That was what I was aiming at in one year,\u201d the former president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obasanjo also admitted that the older generation had done a lot of wrong things, while urging youths to make it uncomfortable for the older leaders to remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, \u201cWhatever my generation might have done wrong\u2014 and I will be the first to admit that my generation has done a lot wrong\u2014 is for your (young) generation to do it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t just seat and complain; it is like the anger of a cripple. Be proactive. Get like-minded people that can say \u2018we can bring about a change\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe old hands won\u2019t voluntarily go out of the way. You have to make them go out of the way. Make it uncomfortable for them; not violence, but bringing pressure to bear,\u201d Obasanjo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that Nigeria has a deficit where leadership is concerned, despite having abundance of people capable of assuming such a role. Obasanjo who stated this on Sunday during a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, also noted that technocrats to lift the country and the African continent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nNigeria has leadership deficit despite abundance of people \u2013Obasanjo » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=39585\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=39585#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=14\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nigeria has leadership deficit despite abundance of people \u2013Obasanjo\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigeria has leadership deficit despite abundance of people \u2013Obasanjo » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=39585","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=39585#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=14"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nigeria has leadership deficit despite abundance of people \u2013Obasanjo"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":21,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that Nigeria has a deficit where leadership is concerned, despite having abundance of people capable of assuming such a role. Obasanjo who stated this on Sunday during a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, also noted that technocrats to lift the country and the African continent…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39585"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}