Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo said if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, do their jobs properly and with adequate support of the judiciary, many presidential aspirants ahead of 2023 would be in jail.
The former president who spoke at an international symposium organised to mark his 85th birthday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, said anybody who doesn’t have integrity in small things cannot have integrity in big things.
Obasanjo, who spoke on the theme of the symposium, “Africa Narrative with Nigeria Situation”, insisted that Nigerians must learnt from the events of the past and put aside sentiments in choosing the next president of the country. He said: “I cast a cursory look at some of the people running around and those for whom people are running around.
“If EFCC and ICPC had done their jobs properly and are supported adequately by the judiciary, most of them would be in jail.
“Any person who has no integrity in small things cannot have integrity in big things. “Fixing Nigeria must begin on the principles of nation building, not necessarily on emotion, sentiments, euphoria, ignorance, incompetence, ethnicity, nepotism, bigotry, sectionalism, regionalism, religion or class.
“The issues of security, stability, development, economy and our relationship within Africa and with the rest of the world can only be taken care of if we get the issue of nation building right.
“We have a lot to learn from the events of the last almost twenty-four years and God is not to blame if we fail.”
