Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria is not where God intends for her to occupy in the comity of nations.
He lamented that rather than being a land flowing with milk and honey, it has regrettably become a “land flowing with bitterness and sadness”.
The former President made his observations at the Youth Centre of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during the public presentation of a book, Titled: ‘The Man General President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR’.
It was written in honour of Obasanjo and to celebrate his 84th birthday.
Obasanjo noted that God created Nigeria to lead the black race, lamenting that the country has not fit into that role because of leadership failure.
“The task before us now is to think of what to contribute to make Nigeria what God created it to be, a land flowing with milk and honey. Right now, it is land flowing with bitterness and sadness. That is not what God meant for this country. We must change it. And we must change the narrative.”
He advocated collective efforts from Nigerians to change the present situation. He urged the government to prioritise investments in education to get Nigeria to where it ought to be.
