Obasanjo Gives Fresh Description of What He is to Every Nigerian Youth in New Meeting With Charly Boy
- Olusegun Obasanjo expressed frustration over the challenges bedevilling Nigeria as a country and the struggle by youths to survive
- The former president said that the development sought by many Nigerians can only be achieved with a change in leadership
- According to Obasanjo, youths across the country need to take the bull by the horn to have the change everyone desires
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Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has described himself as the father of all the frustrated Nigerians across the country and the world.
Obasanjo gave this description of himself during a courtesy call by Charly Boy, one of Nigeria's entertainers and activists in his Abeokuta home in Ogun state.
Source: UGC
In a video shared by The Punch, Charly Boy popular called Area Fada in his attempt to describe the challenges and frustration faced by Nigerian youths to the former president asked for a way out of the darkness bedevilling the nation.
His words:
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"As the President of frustrated youths of this country, na me be their president, okay? Me myself, I dey frustrated because..."
Obasanjo cuts in, stating that if Charly Boy is the president of the frustrated Nigerians, he is the father of them all.
His words:
"You are president and of frustrated Nigerian youths? I am their father."
All laugh and clap in unison as Charly Boy continues. He queried what is expected of an ordinary Nigerian youth who has toiled and lost all hope in the country.
Continuing, Charly Boy added:
"The environment is so toxic, I don't know what can grow in a toxic environment. If you were asked to advise that young Nigerian, Baba what would you say to that young Nigerian., to give them hope?
We have a serious battle in our hands and some people have lost hope."
In response to Charly Boy's question, Obasanjo submitted that the kind of change sought by well-meaning Nigerians can only be handed to citizens by the youths of Nigeria.
He added:
"So that we are poor and frustrated is not the fault of God, it is the choice of our leaders and if you're going to change that, change our situation, you have to change leadership. All and simple.
"And there is nobody who would do it other than the youths. Nigeria is my own baby, the one I want to put a beautiful bead on its waist, not an individual.
"In the north they say, 'La mu la muni'. 'Tiwa n tiwa', in south-east, it's 'Nka bu ka nyi.' Now, that is not the issue, the issue is Nigeria."
Watch the video here:
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Source: Legit.ng
