Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has questioned the character of Nigeria’s leaders, saying those who occupy public offices should be behind bars.
He stated this in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital while receiving in the 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 the 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, 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 decarbonize our brains and mentality.
“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 insisted.
