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“The first is politics which is governance. Unless we get governance right, any other thing we are trying to do will not be right.

Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, says Nigeria is more divided now than it was during the civil war.
He said this during his speech at the 2019 annual retreat/conference and general meeting of members of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria (ACAEBIN) held at Park Inn, Abeokuta in Ogun State on Thursday.
According to Obasanjo, the country would experience more division if it does not begin to partner with other countries to develop other sectors of the economy.
“When we look at this country today, even during the civil war, we were not as divided as we are now. Today, we are in danger if we don’t take partnership serious. That partnership should be within our people, Africa and the rest of the world," he said.
Obasanjo stated that until the government gets its politics right, the country will keep experiencing setback in whatever it does, just as he stressed the need to translate the growing population of the country to economic development.
“The first is politics which is governance. Unless we get governance right, any other thing we are trying to do will not be right.
“The second is population. Our population at Independence was estimated to be 45 million, but today we are almost 200 million. By the year 2050, we will be over 400 million. Normally, population should be an asset but looking at the condition we are in now when in the North-East of Nigeria, the percentage of adult literacy is about 53 per cent, and education being the basic of all human development, you can see that we have a problem.
“How do we think of setting education to be useful? Those people who will make our education of over 400 million people in many years’ time are already born, and you cannot unborn them. So the problem is here, what do we do?
"We must provide education, housing, healthcare and most importantly, employment for them. One thing that I believe will help us to provide employment is agricultural business.”
The former president also urged the government to ensure security is guaranteed across the country.

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A gang of hoodlums invaded a corps members’ residence along school road , Swali, Yenagoa, and shot three members of the National Youth Service Corps Corps(NYSC).
Of the three corpers, two were confirmed dead on Thursday, while one who was critically injured is currently receiving treatment in one of the hospitals in the capital city.
The police identified the dead NYSC members as Popoola Oluwatobi Olamide, 30, a graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) who was an indigene of Oyo State, and George Onokpoma. The third corp member Anthony Gbenga Dada survived the attack and is currently receiving treatment in the hospital.
The armed men, numbering about six were said to have arrived the corpers ‘ residence at about 10.30pm and immediately started shooting into the lodge repeatedly with cries of anguish from within the residence.
The deceased corps members, it was gathered, were attached to a private school, identified as Victory Group of Schools, close to their residence and were marking some examination scripts when the hoodlums invaded their home.
It wasn’t immediately clear why the gang attacked, but it was learnt that one of the suspects, now in police custody, was found sleeping in the same room as the attacked corps members after the bloody attack.
“The armed men had attacked a shop close to the residence and the arrested suspect escaped and was traced to the house.
“It is suspected that the armed men wanted to kill him but instead met the corps members and shot them,” a source said.
The only shot survivor said the suspected cultists broke into their room and started shooting, adding that when the leader of the gang ordered that he should be shot in the head, there was no more bullet in their gun.
Confirming the incident in a release, Police Spokeman, Asinim Butswat said: “On the 20th March, 2019 at about 2200hours, armed robbers numbering about seven, attacked the residence of one Jerry Yeseme Moses ‘m’ proprietor of a school, at swalli, Yenagoa.
“The armed robbers instantly shot and killed one Corper Oluwatobi Popoola ‘m’ 30years,they also shot one George Onokpoma ‘m’ and Anthony Gbenga Dada.
“The victims were rushed to the Federal Medical Center, Yenagoa, where George Onokpoma was confirmed dead, while Anthony Gbenga is responding to treatment. The command has launched a manhunt for the unknown gunmen, investigation is ongoing”.
He said the command paid a condolence visit to the State Coordinator NYSC, Bayelsa State, Mrs Lotto Bolade, to convey their condolences to the families of the deceased and the entire NYSC family.
Meanwhile, an angry mob in the early hours of Thursday in Akenpai, a suburb of Yenagoa, burnt to death a suspected cultist, who was found butchering a lady after killing her.
He was allegedly caught while trying to cut open the body of the young lady identified as Best, an indigene of Epie, when luck ran out on him.
A source said that at least three other ladies had lost their lives in the same circumstances in the last one month.
“He’s the guy that has been killing women at Akenfa. They caught him once when he was trying to kill another woman. This is the third woman he has killed so far”, she said.
Butswat, police spokesman, however said that both the suspected ritualist and murdered woman were known to be mentally sick.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, on Friday, said it will appeal the tribunal judgement that declared Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the September 2018 re-run governorship election in Osun.