*Pix above(l-r): Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, Olusegun Obasanjo and PBAT
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that many Nigerian leaders should be in jail on account of their innumerable iniquities while in office.
He stated this on Friday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while receiving in audience six members of the House of Representatives, and co-sponsors of the bill on a single six-year term and rotation between the North and South.
They were led by a former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Downstream Petroleum, Ugo Chinyere, during the visit to the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library.
“So, the very beginning is ourselves, yes the system, 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.
To the former President, succeeding governments had also not built on the foundation he laid while he was in power.
“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.(agency)/##
