Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that African leaders are
happy over the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28
presidential election.
Obasanjo made this known while speaking to an audience at the United
States Institute of Peace in Washington DC.
The former president stated that his checks in a number of African
countries suggested they were happy over the result of the election.
“Some Nigerians described President Jonathan as a moving train who was
stopped from collapsing Nigeria,” he said.
The former President, who led the African Union Observation Mission to
the April 2015 General Election in Sudan to the event, said, “I have
visited six countries since the election, they are as happy about the
results. It is good not only for Nigeria, it is good for Africa and I
believe it is good for the world.”
He also advised African leaders to shift from the mentality of clinching
to power by all means, urging them to demonstrate statesmanship for the
survival of the African continent.
According to Obasanjo, the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, “has
moved Nigeria one very important step up in our democracy.”
He also advised African leaders to have consultations with elders in
order to promote public accountability and pave way for leaders who were
fearful of giving up power to step down in favour of a future of
statesmanship.
Obasanjo said, “Governance reform and capacity-building programmes, for
example, are apt to look everywhere but within. For a change, let us
move away from the melancholic issue of what is wrong with Africa.
“If we are truly committed to invigorating conversations about an
Africa-focused, Africa-led and Africa-driven framework for substantive
self-determination and sustainable development, it is important to
rethink and reframe how we situate Africa at the centre of inquiry.”
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