Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, claimed on Saturday that everything about him, including his ascension to the positions of military Head of State and Nigerian President, came about by coincidence.
Before being elected as a civilian President in 1999, Obasanjo served as the Head of State of the military. He claimed that he chose to be a farmer rather than becoming one by accident.
Obasanjo said he was always proud to be referred to as a farmer during a live radio interview with Segun Odegbami on Eagles7 Sports 103.7 FM, Abeokuta, on Saturday.
Odegbami had urged Obasanjo to talk about his “relationship with farming,” as he put it.
“I don’t like the word you used, ‘amour with farming,'” the former president replied. I work on a farm.
Describe what you mean by romance. I have done everything I have in my life by chance. Farming is the one activity that is not accidental. I’ve only ever done other things by accident. You called that romance, right? No! How would you define romance?
‘You know where I started. I grew up and was born in a village. I stumbled into attending school. Why don’t you do something different, my father just asked me. I then started farming. The development of successful nations was based on agriculture. First, for food security; second, to begin the industrialization process by processing the produce they harvest from their fields.
Fourthly, as a means of creating jobs for young people. Third: to export it for the goal of earning foreign currency.
Obasanjo pushed Nigerian youths to assume leadership roles immediately.
Young people shouldn’t let anyone refer to them as the leaders of tomorrow, according to Obasanjo, because that day may never arrive.
According to Obasanjo, if the younger generation doesn’t stand up and take control of their destiny, some corrupt leaders would sabotage the so-called tomorrow.
“Never let anyone convince you that you are the leaders of future,” he advised young Nigerians. If you wait till tomorrow to assume control, tomorrow could not come. They’ll obliterate it.
“Now is the time for youth to rise up and bring it about.”
