by Anike Jacobs

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says he will no longer comment on the state of the nation until after the forthcoming general elections.

The one time Nigerian president said this on Wednesday while addressing traditional rulers from Egbaland who attended a seminar organized by a non-governmental organization, The Village Network Empowerment Initiative, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

According to him, he is often misconstrued and misquoted on issues so he’d rather keep mum until after the elections.

Some of such issues include his condemnation of the Goodluck Jonathan administration and more recently the situation in which teachers in some states were being owed salaries for upward of six months.

Hear him: “Where we are now, I have spoken. I have used body language and whoever still does not understand all I have been saying, it would take such a person a long time to understand.

“It is something that is very clear for us all to see. Some people came to visit me from Benue State three days ago and told me teachers in that state had not been paid for six months.

“There are states where teachers have not been paid for four months, three months and two months. That is not good at all. It’s only God that can help us to overcome all these problems.

“All I know is that God has done His own part and it’s now left for us as human beings to do our own bit. Do we, as Nigerians, say that God has not been magnanimous enough to us?

“Is it human or natural resources that we do not have? We are blessed with a lot of fertile land. Shakespeare says the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.

“God has done his own part and it’s now left for us as human beings to play our own part. That our own part starts from the 14th and it’s now left to you and me. I won’t say more than that. I’ve said I won’t say anything anymore until after the elections.

“You’ll hear from me after the elections. But I’ve said it verbally and through body language and how you understand it all is now left to you. But whatever you still don’t understand about all of these, I will put it in prayers that God should enable you to clearly understand it all better.

“But I won’t say more than this until after the election,” he concluded.

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