Obasanjo blames Africa’s problems on bad leadership, governance

General Obasanjo shared these insights during the 15th African Youth and Governance Convergence held in Mankessim, Central Region.

This cuts across the whole African continent, and we are in bad shape and situation because leadership and governance in our different countries and sub-regions have not lived up to expectations.

Leadership and governance have simply not lived up to expectation,” General Olusegun Obasanjo noted.

The former Nigerian President enumerated some key challenges the continent is faced with and how they can be resolved while urging the youth to exhibit positive defiance if they want to be counted as stakeholders of development on the continent.

“The youth can play a key role in the development of the continent, by engaging themselves in governance issues

As a youth you must be positively disruptive, defiant and surge for greater things for the continent”.

“The youth must take advantage of digitization and use it positively