Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he is “too old to keep quiet” over the ethno-religious division plaguing Nigeria.
According to Vanguard, Obasanjo said this at a conference in Abuja on Thursday.
Obasanjo promised to continue to voice his concerns for the benefit of the nation.
He said that the incoming government must work to pursue national moral rearmament and reconciliation following the divisiveness occasioned by the just concluded general elections.
The former president said that the move has the potential to bring about healing and to assuage Nigerian youths who were angered by the shortcomings of the elections.
Obasanjo said that the incoming government must think outside the box to rescue the nation’s plunging economy plagued by huge national debt burden.
He said that will political will backed by commensurate action, the nation’s dire circumstances can be salvaged.