Nigerian leaders lack the vision to implement policies, says Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has highlighted why Nigeria has failed to make progress despite having abundance of human and natural resources.
Obasanjo expressed worry that Nigeria appears to be taking one step forward and three steps backward due to leadership inability to implement policies.
The former president spoke at an event in Abuja yesterday.
Obasanjo said Nigeria is not bereft of policies to achieve greatness but blamed leaders for the country’s lack of progress.
According to Obasanjo: “It is not enough for leaders to have policies or make statements. We are not short of policies in Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, Nigeria has become a burial ground of policies that are either unimplemented or unexecuted.
“Those who make progress achieved progress, not on the basis of wishing to make progress, but on taking actions. They do not take two steps forward and three steps backward.
“Regrettably this is what we are doing in every aspect of our national life. And as long as we are doing things this way, progress will elude us.”