Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed regrets that successive presidents after him failed to build on his successes. He attributed Nigeria’s woes to inconsistencies in government policies.
Obasanjo said the failure of successive leaders to consolidate on the achievements of their predecessors had made governance look like an impossible task.
Obasanjo recalled that during one of his visits to Singapore, he asked the country’s former Prime Minister , Harry Lee Kuan Yew, the secrets of the Asian country’ s success .
The former president said, “He (Yew ) simply told me their secret was that they did a few things right and continued to do them right. We keep lamenting as if Nigeria is impossible to run or get things rights .
“I think that during my tenure as president, we did quite a few things right but our failure to continue to do what we have done right is the problem.
