{"id":159172,"date":"2025-04-12T22:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:11:05","slug":"nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians shouldn\u2019t be poor \u2014 Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that Nigerians ought not to be living in poverty, given the country\u2019s abundant natural and human resources.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a dinner hosted in his honour by the Abia State Government on Friday at the Government House in Umuahia, Obasanjo stated that the nation is richly endowed but continues to suffer as a result of the mismanagement of its resources.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cNigerians have no business with poverty because God has given us all that we need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are mismanaging what God has given us, we do not have God to blame, we have ourselves to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president commended Governor Alex Otti of Abia State for his administration\u2019s transformation efforts, highlighting the widespread public approval of his governance.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded the governor\u2019s impact on the state and encouraged him to maintain the current trajectory of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo reiterated that the country\u2019s fortunes would be greatly improved if at least 18 governors were performing their duties effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The former military Head of State also restated his enduring concern for the well-being of Nigerians and the quality of governance delivered by public officeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, whether you don\u2019t greet me or I greet you and you don\u2019t answer, what is important to me is that the people of this country are getting what they deserve and what they deserve is good governance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to recall a moment during the tenure of former Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi when the latter was unaware of a pre-existing national railway development plan. Obasanjo said Amaechi had to be directed to the archives to retrieve the necessary documentation.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Governor Otti acknowledged the unwavering support he has received from the former president, describing vision and perseverance as indispensable to effective leadership.<\/p>\n<p>He reflected on the arduous journey of his political career, marked by a decade of persistence and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you have vision, you have to keep to it. It took us ten years to get here. The two elections we contested from 2015 to 2019, we won clearly but they were all stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people had given up hope and said it wasn\u2019t going to work, but I was sure that I heard clearly from God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that Nigerians ought not to be living in poverty, given the country\u2019s abundant natural and human resources. Speaking at a dinner hosted in his honour by the Abia State Government on Friday at the Government House in Umuahia, Obasanjo stated that the nation is richly endowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":159171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[254,1670,479],"class_list":["post-159172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerians","tag-obasanjo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerians shouldn\u2019t be poor \u2014 Obasanjo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that Nigerians ought not to be living in poverty, given the country\u2019s ab ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerians shouldn\u2019t be poor \u2014 Obasanjo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that Nigerians ought not to be living in poverty, given the country\u2019s ab ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-12T21:57:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-15T12:11:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744486182.269586.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1728\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1152\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerians shouldn\u2019t be poor \u2014 Obasanjo\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-12T21:57:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-15T12:11:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo\"},\"wordCount\":401,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1744486182.269586.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"nigerians\",\"Obasanjo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-shouldnt-be-poor-obasanjo\",\"name\":\"Nigerians shouldn\u2019t be poor \u2014 Obasanjo - 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