Your generation is responsible for the country – OBJ tells Nigerian youths

Erstwhile President, Olusegun Obasanjo has tasked
Nigerian youths to embrace the responsibility of fighting for
the country.
The former president stated that the generation before his
fought for the country’s independence while his generation
fought for Nigeria’s unity, adding that the present generation
is burdened with the onus of ensuring that the democracy of
the Nigeria is stable
While speaking at the 100th-year anniversary of Ijero
Baptist Church in Lagos on Sunday, 30 November,
Obasanjo implored Nigeria’s youths to actively contribute to
nation building, rather than blame previous generations for
the Nigeria’s wholesome decadent state.
Obasanjo stated: “Recently, a son of my friend looked at
everything around him and got angry and went to meet his
dad who is my age mate. He told his father that our
generation is a lost one. The father did not pay him any
attention so he came to meet me.”
“He told me what he told his father and justified it by telling
me that he went to the university and graduated but got no
job. So, our generation has failed him. So I told him that
it is normal because that was how we used to blame the
generation before us.”
“But I told him that the generation before mine was the
one that fought for our independence. Whichever way we
want to criticise them, they gave us independence. Then my
generation which you say is not good, fought the civil war.
We fought for the unity of Nigeria and if we did not do
so, you probably would need a visa to travel to Kano or
Port Harcourt. Not only that but that generation also
established the foundation of democracy.”
“So what do you claim your generation has achieved? It is
part of it. We have seen what successive leaders of each
generation have done, what can we say about you? What
can we say about your generation?”