I’ll commit suicide if there’s no hope for Nigeria- Obasanjo

Obasanjo

Chidi Samuel || Elder statesman and Nigeria's two-time leader, Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday said he will commit suicide if he discovers that there is no hope for the Country.
Obasanjo who is in Bayelsa State on the invitation of Bayelsa State governor, Seriake Dickson to commission some projects, made the statement while speaking at the Ijaw National Academy (INA), Kaiama, Kolokuma-Opokuma local government area of Bayelsa state.
The former President urged the pupils not to give up on Nigeria.
Obasanjo said, “If I believe that Nigeria has no hope, I will find a way of committing suicide immediately. Then what am I living for? I am an incurable optimist about Nigeria. Nigeria has hope.”
“There are many things that we should have done that we have not done as we should have done them. There is no doubt about that. But that doesn’t mean that Nigeria has no hope. Hope is what drives human beings.
“If you are a person without hope, you are a person without life. How can I, therefore, say Nigeria has no hope? Nigeria has hope. And you are part of the hope of Nigeria. The question you have asked me is a very sensible question and that means with you asking me that type of question it heightens my own conviction that Nigeria has hope.
“My generation or the generation before me gave us independence. It doesn’t matter what you think about them. My generation fought for the unity of this country and laid the foundation of democracy.
“Then people of governor Dickson generation should be able to say they built on our foundation. That is how a nation continues to make progress. The governor is doing wonderfully well. Anybody coming after him will do something else. The person will not start building the INA from the scratch. The academy has already been established.