2023: Some presidential aspirants should be in jail if EFCC, ICPC did their jobs – Fmr. President Olusegun Obasanjo

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said some presidential aspirants gunning for 2023 presidency should be in jail by now if the EFCC and ICPC did their job well.

He spoke at a presentation marking his 85th birthday in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

He said he had cast a cursory look at some of the people running around and those for whom people were running around for the 2023 presidency.

“If EFCC and ICPC will have done their jobs properly and supported adequately by the judiciary, most of them would be in jail. Any person who has no integrity in small things cannot have integrity in big things. Fixing Nigeria must begin on the principles of nation building, not necessarily on emotion, sentiments, euphoria, ignorance, incompetence, ethnicity, nepotism, b!gotry, sectionalism, regionalism, religion or class.

“The issues of security, stability, development, economy and our relationship within Africa and with the rest of the world can only be taken care of if we get the issue of the nation building right,” he said.

He added that all presidential aspirants must be “properly x-rayed” and Nigerians be educated to make a choice for the sake of national development.