Obasanjo preaches hope as cleric seeks Buhari’s probe

FPresident, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria has not met the aspirations of her creation, but asked the people to keep hope alive.

He spoke as the retiring Archbishop of Enugu Province, Emmanuel Chukwuma, asked President Bola Tinubu to investigate former President, Muhammadu Buhari, insisting that failure to do so would mean that the fight against corruption is onesided.

Chukwuma also said Tinubu’s “renewed hope” was fast turning into “renewed hopeless”, because of the level of corruption, looting, hunger, poverty, starvation, insecurity associated with his government”.

Obasanjo noted that vices have emerged as the country progressed, making living unbearable for ordinary Nigerians.

Obasanjo spoke at the retirement thanksgiving service and celebration of 34 years of the Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Enugu Diocese, held at the Cathedral Church of Good Shepherd, Enugu.

Obasanjo said: “Nigeria is not what it should be. This a country if you are able to live to 50 years with Boko Haram, banditry here and there, armed robbery, poverty, hunger, you thank God. There is so much that can take the life of anyone anyhow in Nigeria.

“I was told that rate of suicide has increased. One of my friends, who work as a medical doctor in one of the psychiatrist hospitals, said to me the other day that there is increase in number of people with mental health challenge because they are worried about what to eat and how to solve their problems. “But in spite of these difficulties and bad conditions, I ask Nigerians not to lose hope. To lose hope is to give up. There is no giving up. We must persevere, we must go on.”