The former President Olusegun Obasanjo, urged
the youth of Nigeria to make their own
contribution to national development instead of complaining. Obasanjo made this call at at the 100th-year anniversary of Ijero Baptist
Church in Lagos on Sunday.
"Recently, a son of my friend
looked at everything around him and got angry and went to meet his dad who is
my age mate. He told his father that our generation is a lost one. The father
did not pay him any attention so he came to meet me.
"He told me what he told his father and justified it
by telling me that he went to the university and graduated but got no job. So,
our generation has failed him. So I told him that it is normal because that was
how we used to blame the generation before us.
"But I told him that the generation before mine was
the one that fought for our independence. Whichever way we want to criticise
them, they gave us independence. Then my generation which you say is not good,
fought the civil war. We fought for the unity of Nigeria and if we did not do
so, you probably would need a visa to travel to Kano or Port Harcourt. Not only
that but that generation also established the foundation of democracy.
"So what do you claim your generation has achieved?
It is part of it. We have seen what successive leaders of each generation have
done, what can we say about you? What can we say about your generation?"
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