Obasanjo Is Nigeria’s Best President Since 1999 – Moghalu

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, says former president Olusegun Obasanjo is Nigeria’s best president since 1999.

Moghalu, who was a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed this on Monday saying that irrespective of the flaws of the former president, he was a successful president because he was detribalised.

According to Moghalu, Obasanjo does not think like a “provincial politician” but a s a leader of the whole country.

He said: “OBJ, faults and all, is our best President since 1999. One key reason for his success is that he was focused on Nigeria as his constituency not his ethnic group. All his career was federal/international – nation building, national security, economy, foreign affairs.

“So he thought like a president of Nigeria, not a provincial politician. Nigeria is a unique place. In advanced democracies, it is often the case that politicians start local and move upward.

“Because they have a real nation with a unity of purpose and destiny.

“Here, the presidency requires transcendence of mind and action in order to provide the kind of leadership we need. Strong experience in federal and international institutions provides that necessary perspective for effective leadership of a country like ours.”