Nigeria became the investment hub of Africa as
foreign investors flocked to our shores and sunk billions of dollars into our economy due to the enabling
entrepreneurial environment that was created by the
President Olusegun Obasanjo administration.
Women took their rightful places as leaders of sev-
eral government ministries, Nigerians in the Diaspora
began to shut up shop and return home to take advantage of the countless economic opportunities that were
now available, and many of them have never looked
back.
Both Citigroup and the World Bank gave the Nigerian economy a clean bill of health and cited that Nigeria was the nation to watch with regards to economic
supremacy in the new markets.
Over and above this catalogue
We are a nation that has been blessed by God with
unprecedented Natural and human resources and with
a population fast approaching 200 million, it is truly
an entrepreneur’s wet dream. 200 million people who
need to be fed, clothed, educated, housed and entertained, and the entrepreneurs that can supply those
needs to the population will prosper, and are indeed
prospering beyond their wildest dreams. Look around
you, the Indians, the Chinese, the Europeans and
Americans are flocking to our shores in order to capitalise on this economic renaissance, and the Lebanese
have practically made Nigeria their home because they
know that they cannot prosper in Lebanon in the manner with which they are doing in Nigeria.
President Obasanjo fought tireless for the preserva-
tion of our national unity via the strategy of political
inclusion. He made sure that all the ethnic/geopolitical
zones across the nation where fairly/proportionately
represented and that the proverbial “national cake”
was evenly distributed across the states.
of achievements by the President
hallOlusegun Obasanjo administration, The principles of fairness and equity where the and in
marks of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration
had ended,
the greatest fete of his administra- 2007 when his tenurefor unity andhe once again demonstrated his passion
national tranquillity
by supporting a candidate of Northern extraction to
tion has to be the creation and prescontest the PDP presidential primaries, that candidate
ervation of the unity of Nigeria. not only won the primaries but he later went on to win
elections 2007. Without comproA kingdom divided against itself the Presidentialbe no unityinand those who refuse the
mise there can
the wisdom of the unofficial “zoning”
cannot stand, irrespective of the seenot have the interest of Nigeria at heart.arrangement
do
vast natural and human resource
that such a kingdom might possess.
The divine wisdom, with which President Obasanjo
Even in a family unit which sociol- regularly functioned in, is what saved our union and
kept the nation united. One tribe/ethnic group cannot
ogy describes as the smallest unit of hope to govern peacefully if they don’t recognise the
socialisation, there cannot be prog- leadership qualities/potentials in neighbouringtotribes.
Every ethnic group in Nigeria has something conress and prosperity outside of unity. tribute towards the leadership of the nation and the
recognition of this truth and its pragmatic implementaNigeria has never lagged in poten- tion by the Obasanjo administration was what secured
forever the oneness of Nigeria.
tial or in economic possibility.
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