Director general of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) Comrade Issa Aremu has said former president Olusegun Obasanjo does not pass f
“His long long latest verbosity called letter could not have been meant for the great Nigerian youths who prefer minimum honest word counts, but maximum wisdom, youths’ future he subverted with attempted third term ambition, serial brinkmanships and sit- tight mindset”.
Describing himself as “a child of independent Nigeria”, observed that his “modest accomplishments and impact” in the past six decades as a non- state and state actor, indicate that “Nigeria is work in progress” contrary to what is called “daily fictions of despair about a great country with challenges of nation-building called Nigeria”.
He however observed it was time for “quality control” of democratic process, through “reinvention of new statesmanship and new citizenship”. “We must encourage a new Democratic culture that allows for unfettered free debate of issues. The democratic contest is a form of institutionalized conflict. But this healthy conflict should be about ideas not personalities.
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