Yar'adua failed to continue with my administration policies - Obasanjo
Tribune / 2016-05-09 21:15
FORMER president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, said his successor, the late Umaru Musa Yar'adua failed to build on the successes recorded by his administration while in office for eight years.
He spoke as a guest of honour at the third Covenant University International Conference on African Development Issues with the theme "Driving Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Africa: Models. Methods and Policies", held at the African Leadership Centre of the university, in Ota, Ogun State.
Obasanjo, who gave a talk on "What is right with Africa", identified lack of commitment and continuity as a major factor hindering sustainable development in the continent of Africa.
He noted that some African leaders got it right in administering their countries because of their will and sense of determination in developing their nations.
Obasanjo further said that the late president campaigned on the slogan of continuity through the length and breadth of the country, but jettisoned it for discontinuity, when he eventually became the number one citizen.
He added that Yar'adua was misled by some people immediately he assumed power to reverse some of the policies and programmes embarked on by his government.
"If you remember - may his soul rest in peace - Yar'adua campaigned on the slogan of continuity. That was the content of his campaign. When he got there, he jettisoned continuity and began discontinuity.
"After his death, I asked one of his close associates. I said tell me what really happened. He said as soon as we left, some people got of him and said look, you will never succeed unless you run down Obasanjo. He believed that. So, that is what he believed and that is what he did.
"Some of the things that we put in place that would help the country - I have talked about agriculture, I talked about debt; in fact, if debt relief was possible to be reversed, Yar'adua would have reversed it," he added.
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