The former president said this on Monday when he received members of the New Nigeria group at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first lesson I learnt in my military training is never reinforce failure; what we have now is failure. Never you reinforce failure, let failure be failure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Incompetent Government?<\/p>\n
Addressing members of the New Nigeria group at his residence today, the former president rated the present administration as ineffective.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe truth is this \u2013 when you have an ineffective and incompetent government, we are all victims and don\u2019t let anybody deceive you.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose of you who are in business, your business could have been better today if we have a competent and effective and performing government.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obasanjo also accused the President of having a \u201cpoor understanding\u201d of the dynamics of internal politics.<\/p>\n
He warned Nigerians not to get carried away by the recent apology tendered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as well as the reforms of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time, for us to make it, we need all hands on deck,\u201d Obasanjo stated. \u201cI have publicly said and I mean it that as a party, neither PDP nor APC can get us there; never mind about reforms and apology and all that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo further asked the APC to stop giving excuses that it has yet to perform better because it met challenges, noting that the party was aware of the challenges before it wrestled power from the PDP.<\/p>\n
He then asked youths in the country to rise up to the challenge of providing the much needed new generation of leadership for the development of Nigeria\u2019s socio-economic and political development.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Accept PDP\u2019s Apology, Tinubu Tells Nigerians<\/p>\n
The former president also asked the younger generation to take the bull by the horn, if they must effectively confront \u201cpower addicts\u201d in their resolve to achieve the set goals and objectives of providing an alternative in the political leadership of the country.<\/p>\n
He stressed the need for a \u201cstrong popular grassroots movement\u201d in Nigeria, saying that\u2019s the way to bring about the change, sustainability and stability the nation needs in its democracy<\/p>\n
On the flip said, the former president said, \u201cYou cannot take PDP as it is, and APC as it is; but they are not all made of evil people, there are good people. I said PDP is leprous hand, APC is leprous hand, but there are some clean fingers in them.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, let\u2019s take those clean fingers in them and graft the clean fingers in our own. That is the way to go and if we go that way, we will get there.<\/p>\n
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