{"id":62773,"date":"2018-11-19T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62773"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:07:57","slug":"2019-what-nigeria-must-do-to-progress-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62773","title":{"rendered":"2019: What Nigeria must do to progress – Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has noted that without peace and unity, the country cannot make significant progress.<\/p>\n

According to the ex-president, Nigeria can only progress when all of its citizens have a sense of belonging, unity and security.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo spoke yesterday in Asaba, Delta State, at a meeting with the executive members of the Delta state Traditional Council led by its chairman, Obi Efizomor II, Obi Of Owa.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cI am an incurable optimist about this country, Nigeria is not a perfect country but it can be made to make progress, move at a pace that will be advantageous to all of us, no matter our tribe, position gender and race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can have a country that is at peace with itself, where unity is enthroned, a country where every one will be their brothers\u2019 keeper, where performance will be obvious in the governance and running of the affairs of our people, a country where everyone will have a sense of belonging.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former military head of state commended the state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, for bringing peace, unity, development and cooperation among the people of Delta.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo called on the traditional council to continue to be pillar of support to the Governor in his developmental strides.<\/p>\n

He also reminded the traditional rulers that they were bastion of peace, unity and development in their various domains.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has noted that without peace and unity, the country cannot make significant progress. According to the ex-president, Nigeria can only progress when all of its citizens have a sense of belonging, unity and security. Obasanjo spoke yesterday in Asaba, Delta State, at a meeting with the executive members of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[519,58],"class_list":["post-62773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-olusegun-obasanjo","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}