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Most politicians aspiring for 2023 presidency should be in jail — Obasanjo
By Ibrahim Adeleke
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said most of the people running around and scheming to become next president in 2023 were supposed to be in prison.
He said if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had done their jobs properly and supported adequately by the judiciary, that most of politicians clamouring to become next president would be in jail
He stated this during an international symposium to mark his 85th birthday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Obasanjo said, “Since 1999, we have changed from one political party or another we have manoeuvered and manipulated to the point that election results are no longer reflections of the will of the people and we seemed to be progressively going back rather than going forward politically, economically and socially.
“We have activities without requite actions and personnel to move us forward. If we continue in the same pattern of recycling, sweet-word campaigning, manoeuvring without the substance of integrity, honesty, patriotism, commitment, outreach, courage, understanding of what makes a nation and what make for development, we will soon have to say goodbye to Nigeria as a nation.
“I cast a cursory look at some of the people running around and those for whom people are running around. If EFCC and ICPC will have done their jobs properly and supported adequately by the judiciary, most of them would be in jail. Any person who has no integrity in small things cannot have integrity in big things.”
