Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the usage of a slogan by the followers and leadership of APC that the ideology of ‘Emi lokan’ mostly by the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, is a wrong leadership mentality that the country doesn’t need now.
By Temitope Adedeji
Obasanjo made this claim in a letter titled “My Appeal to all Nigerians”, which he personally signed, said the Emi lokan idea can’t reinvent and invest in a new Nigeria.
Recall that Tinubu, at an event in Ogun state, mid last year, said on live television that “…Emi lo kan egbe kini yi wa”. (It is my turn to be president, bring this thing to me). This has since become a slogan associated with the former Lagos governor.
However, Obasanjo said, ”Let me say straight away that ‘Emi Lokan’ (My turn) and ‘I have paid my dues are one and the same thing and are wrong attitudes and mentality for the leadership of Nigeria now. They cannot form the new pedestal to reinvent and invest in a new Nigeria based on an All-Nigeria Government for the liberation and restoration of Nigeria.’
“Such a government must have representation from all sectors of our national life public, private, civil society, professional, labour, employers, and the diaspora. The solution should be in we’ and ‘us’ and not in ‘me’ and ‘I”, the former president had declared.”
Obasanjo in the letter asked Nigerians, especially the youth, to take back the nation in the coming presidential election.
