Iyabo Obasanjo, the first daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, says almost everything in the country is upside down.
In an interview with Vanguard, the former lawmaker said President Muhammadu Buhari’s focus on oil and gas at a time when the word has moved on to other areas, is an indication that change has obviously not come.
Iyabo, who now lectures at a university in the US, said she no longer follows developments in Nigeria on a regular basis.
“How a country with so many talented people could be in such mess is saddening. It is the future that actually is frightening. How are children and grandchildren going to do in the future when no one is planning for the future?” she asked.
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“Twice recently I have come across interviews of the President (Muhammadu Buhari) and it seems his focus is just on oil and gas. Focusing on oil and gas, a natural resource we have no control over is what got us to where we are and somehow he thinks it will get us out!
“The time of oil as a king commodity is past and never coming back. In the history of humanity, the commodity that becomes king changes from time to time. From the time of the OPEC formation in the early 70s till now, oil had been king. It will no longer be, because if we continue using it at the rate we have in the last 100 years, we will not have a planet.
“Countries that didn’t use their income from oil to generate other sources of income will be in dire straits, hence Nigeria’s economic woes. Taking oil for granted as if it would be at high prices forever is idiotic. Now if change means more focus on oil and gas as the president is saying then obviously change has not come.”
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Asked to respond to the situation in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), where she served as a senator, she said: “I have no idea but it is not only about the PDP, almost everything in the country is upside down.”
She also ruled out the possibility of taking any political role in Nigeria in future.
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