Obansanjo to President-Elect: Embark On National Reconciliation

Folowing the division brought on by the recently ended general elections, Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has stated that the next administration must seek to allow national moral rearmament and reconciliation.

Obasanjo lamented that the country was today more polarized and fractured than what its founding fathers had in mind while speaking as a guest of honour at a public lecture series titled, “From Elections to Government and Performance,” in Abuja yesterday.

He continued by saying that Nigerian governance now requires unconventional thinking to save the country from its collapsing economy and enormous national debt burden. He also said that there needed to be political action and commitment, as well as administrative efforts, to reform the public service and transform it into a unit that was capable of carrying out its duties.

The former president remarked as Patrick Okigbo, Founder Partner of Nextier SPD, asserted that electoral pledges could only be carried out if the public servants responsible for driving them underwent change.

According to Obasanjo: “Given what we saw during the election, Nigeria is now even more divided and more corroded than we thought.”

“This places a deep onus on any administration following the current one, to urgently facilitate the process of national moral rearmament and national reconciliation for the aggrieved and will lead us across Nigeria and to assuage the youth.”

Glamour Adah

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