Many Nigerian Leaders Should Be In Jail, Says Obasanjo

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 on Friday 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.

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 system, 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.