You are the Leaders of Today, not Tomorrow – Obasanjo Charges Youths to Reject Status Quo
By Ozumi Abdul
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerian youths to take over leadership positions today and stop waiting for tomorrow.
The former President said youths should not allow anyone to address them as leaders of tomorrow, saying that tomorrow may never come.
The former President was speaking on Saturday on a live radio interview with Segun Odegbami aired on Eagles7 Sports 103.7 FM and monitored by Politics Digest.
He noted that some corrupt leaders would destroy the so-called tomorrow if the younger generation fails to rise and take their future in their hands.
“My advice for Nigerian youths is that, never let anybody tell you that you are the leaders of tomorrow. If you wait for tomorrow before you take over leadership, that tomorrow may not come. They will destroy it.
“This is the time, youths get up and make it happen”, he enjoined.
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Obasanjo said he was a farmer by choice and not by accident, and he was always proud to be addressed as a farmer, when Odegbami asked him to speak about what he termed his “romance with farming.”
In response, the former president said, “I don’t like the word you used, ‘romance with farming’. I am a farmer. What do you mean by romance. Everything I have done in my life is by accident. The only thing that is not accidental is farming. Every other thing that I’ve been is by accident. And you called that romance? No! What do you mean by romance?
“You know my beginning. I was born and bred in a village. I went to school by accident. My father just said, ‘won’t you do something different?’ So I went into farming.
“When you look at countries that have made it, they developed on agriculture. First, for the purpose of food security; second, for the purpose of processing what they get from their farms, which is the beginning of industrialisation.
“Third, to give it out as export, which is for the purpose of foreign exchange; and fourth, as a means of generating employment for the youth.”
