US Visa Ban: Learn Leadership Skills From OBJ, Yoruba Group Tells Buhari

US Visa Ban: Learn Leadership Skills From OBJ, Yoruba Group Tells Buhari

POLITICS DIGEST – Following imposition of travel ban on holders of Nigerian passport by the United States of America (USA), a pan-Yoruba group, Yoruba Youth Forum (YYF), on Sunday blamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s laxity for the ban, urging him to take a cue from former President Olusegun Obasanjo leadership styles on how best to preside over affairs of the country.

Its President-General, Comrade Abiodun Bolarinwa, while speaking on the ban and the unimpressive reaction of Presidency, said the country was at crossroads as only experience of ex-presidents especially President Olusegun Obasanjo would be apt at salvaging the situation.

Bolarinwa, who frowned at the way and manner security challenges were being handled in the country, urged President Buhari to seek the help of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to turn things around.

He said: “The U.S. ban of Nigerian passport’s holders into its country is very unfortunate. If Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari has owned up to his responsibility as a leader; we would not have been in this mess.

“It is very unfortunate that life in Nigeria has become the cheapest commodity. Boko Haram and ISWAP are killing people with impunity. Kidnappers and bandits are killing innocent people on daily basis.

“Look at how the innocent doctor’s wife and an 18 years’ old young seminarian kidnapped in Kaduna were both killed in cold blood.

“When President Olusegun Obasanjo was the President, he pursued a mutually convenient close relationship that impacted the nature of reform implementation during his tenure in office.

“Nigeria under former President Obasanjo had great bilateral relations with United States. That prompted foundations -such as the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, became active in Africa. While American organizations advocating for Africa have remained smaller than many of those focused on other parts of the world, they came to constitute an important thread in the texture of America’s relationship with Africa all because of Nigeria under former President Olusegun Obasanjo.”