Obasanjo, in his 2023 assessment, says any person who has no integrity in small things cannot have integrity in big things.
Jail should be the abode of some presidential aspirants not the Villa, says former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Obasanjo stated this while speaking during an international symposium to mark his 85th birthday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
According to Daily Post, Obasanjo said some of presidential aspirants for next year’s general elections should be in jail, if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) did their jobs effectively.
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He said, “Since 1999, we have changed from one political party or another we have manoeuvred and manipulated to the point that election results are no longer reflections of the will of the people and we seemed to be progressively going back rather than going forward politically, economically and socially
“We have activities without requisite actions and personnel to move us forward. If we continue in the same pattern of recycling, sweet-word campaigning, manoeuvring without the substance of integrity, honesty, patriotism, commitment, outreach, courage, understanding of what makes a nation and what make for development, we will soon have to say goodbye to Nigeria as a nation.
“I cast a cursory look at some of the people running around and those for whom people are running around. If EFCC and ICPC will have done their jobs properly and supported adequately by the judiciary, most of them would be in jail. Any person who has no integrity in small things cannot have integrity in big things.”