My successors were not weak, says Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he did not leave ‘weak’ successors in office when he left Aso Rock in 2007. He stated this on Sunday during a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola. The ex-president was reacting to accusations by critics that he installed the late Umaru Yar’adua and Goodluck Jonathan as president and vice-president respectively after his eight-year rule. Obasanjo was Nigeria’s president between 1999 and 2007 under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party. He handed over power to Yar’adua, a two-term governor of Katsina State, who died in office as president, three years after

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