By Augustine Agwulonu
Akwa, March 25 (Newshour.com.ng) – The ex-President of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd), has said that the former CBN governor, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo and former Finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who were from Igbo extraction was the best appointment he made as the president of Nigeria.
Obasanjo stated this in Akwa during the one year anniversary of the administration of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, held at the International Convention Center, Akwa the state capital.
Speaking through his official Twitter handle, the former president said, “While in Government, Somebody came to me and said, ‘Wow! You have ruined the economy of Nigeria.’ I said, ‘How?’ He said, ‘An Igbo woman, Minister of Finance; an Igbo man, Governor of the Central Bank? Then you have clearly completed the task of ruining the economy of Nigeria.’
“I don’t know why he said that, except for what I can call Igbophobia, and I don’t take that lightly. It remains, it persists. But when you have that type of thing that was said to me and the type of thing that you know is going on, as I have just called it, what do we do with it?
“I believe we have to go back to the scripture, which says we must conquer evil with good. And whoever you are, wherever people are afraid of you, you must make yourself friendly to those who’re afraid of you and earn their friendship by being good to them”, he said.
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