Why Many People Want To Leave Nigeria – Obasanjo

The majority of Nigerians are not happy and would leave the country at the easiest opportunity Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo said on Monday.

Speaking at the 9th Toyin Falola Annual  International Conference at Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State Dr. Obasanjo also said observed that God’s grace is what has kept Nigeria united in the face of the several challenges it has passed through.

“God is a Nigerian,” the former president said.

He spoke against the failure of the country’s leaders to manage the diversities which according to him should have been an advantage for national cohesion.

Delivering a paper, titled, ‘Towards a re-unification of the sacred and secular : religious interventions in politics,” the former president said:

“You can’t take one and leave the other. You can’t take politics and leave religion and you can’t take religion and leave politics, they are together.

“It ought to be that way, politics without religion, I don’t know what you would call it, they both affect the welfare and the well-being of all of us as we live in life.

“As far as religion is concerned, there are two issues; diversity and identity.

“We are so badly handling our diversity that we are losing our identity. As long as we are doing that, we are going nowhere.

“When you mismanage diversity with impunity, it is particularly annoying. It can lead to what we may not want it to lead to.

“I don’t know of any Nigerian who doesn’t wish Nigeria well, but I know many Nigerians who are unhappy and want to leave Nigeria.

“Our issue  is so because, what they expect from Nigeria they are not getting it”.

“God is a Nigerian  because , what we have gone through in Nigeria and what we are going through, probably, Nigeria should not be on the map of the world. That’s why I say God is a Nigerian”.

Also present at the lecture were Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB who represented Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and Bishop Mathew Kukah who presented the keynote address.

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