Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria, has questioned the morality of the country’s leaders and declared that individuals in positions of authority ought to be imprisoned.
Speaking to six members of the House of Representatives and co-sponsors of the bill on a single six-year term and rotation between the North, he made this statement on Friday in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
They visited the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library under the direction of Ugo Chinyere, a former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Downstream Petroleum.
“So, the very beginning is ourselves, yes system, yes we have to rethink our democracy but the character of people in government must change. With all due respect, most of those in government should right now be behind bars or in gallows,” he said.
“The issue for me if we get it right whether we have a single term of six years or two terms of four years is that we must decarbonise our brains and mentality.
“Look if you give him a period of a single term of six years, he can go ahead and still do the evil he would have done in a case of two terms of four years. The only difference is that he would have done that within the period of six years and not four years and that is if he is not reelected for another four years.
“To me, this is not our problem. Our main problem is ourselves and until we take care of ourselves, if we like let us adopt a single term of six years, one term of four years among others with the same mentality and same way of doing things, nothing will change,” Obasanjo stated.
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