Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has imputed corruption and dissipation to the administration of President Bola Tinubu, citing the N15.6tn Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway project and N21bn official residence for Vice President Kashim Shettima.
Obasanjo’s scathing verdicts are contained in chapter six of his new book, ‘Nigeria: Past and Future.’
“Typical examples of waste, corruption and misplaced priority are the murky Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road on which the President had turned deaf ears to protests and the new Vice-President’sofficial residence built at a cost of N21bn in the time of economic hardship to showcase the administration hitting the ground running and to show the importance of the office of the Vice-President. What small minds!” he wrote.
The former President declared that western democracy has not been beneficial to Africa, urging the continent to look inward.
“If the West, from where the liberal democracy started should complain about it not working well for them, we should be wise enough at this stage to interrogate, carry out introspection, internal analysis and realise that Western liberal democracy is not working for us and is not delivering apart from the shortcomings of the operators.
“We should seek democracy within African history, culture, attributes and characteristics, one that will take necessary African factors into consideration. Until we can get a better word or description for it, let us call it Afrodemocracy.
“It is from Afrodemocracy that we will draw up an African people’s constitution for any African that chooses to go the way of Afrodemocracy, which will avoid most, to all, the faults we have found in Western liberal democracy,” he suggested.
