Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has been dubbed the “dwarf of Africa” by disgruntled ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. He argued that while God intended Nigeria to be great, Nigerians had turned the country into a behemoth with clay feet.
“So, we must continue to hold ourselves together, pray and understand all the factors and the elements that are making us not to be the giant, but the dwarf of Africa and how we can get out of it and I believe and pray that we will get out of it,” Mr Obasanjo made this statement at a lecture in Abeokuta organised to commemorate his 86th birthday over the weekend.
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“God has created Nigeria for a great purpose. At independence, the world did not refer to Nigeria as giant in Africa. They referred to Nigeria as giant in the sun; Nigeria was more than giant in Africa,” said the ex-president who discredited the results of the presidential election held on February 25. “It was giant in the sun. But not only have we not been giant in the sun. We have not even been giant in Africa. Some people called us giant with clay feet.”
Mr Obasanjo added, “It is not what God has made Nigeria to be. That is what we Nigerians have unwittingly or intentionally created. Will Nigeria, however, remain so? No, I believe.”
Mr. Obasanjo’s statement came just days after Peoples Gazette published a smuggled recording showing him plotting with Charly Boy and former Governor Donald Duke to mobilize young Nigerians to resist the election of Bola Tinubu as president-elect.
According to the audio, Mr. Obasanjo instructed Charly Boy and the former Cross River governor to spearhead the protest that would “paralyze” the country, adding that if President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime decided to unleash security personnel to kill the youth, “let them kill.”
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