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| Olusegun Obasanjo |
Former President,Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said selfish
leaders have hindered the growth and progress of the
country. Obasanjo, who advised that every leader to make the interest of
the governed paramount in his policies, spoke when the leadership and members
of the Scout Association of Nigeria paid him a courtesy visit and decorated him
as Messenger of Peace Ambassador for Africa at his Presidential Hilltop
mansion in Abeokuta.
Noting
that the decoration had rekindled memories of when he became Queen’s Scout,
Obasanjo said for a leader to succeed he must always be prepared at all time to
face challenges, especially unexpected challenges.
“We need
a Scout spirit in our country not just for individual benefit alone but
also for services to the nation. Work collectively and provide the leadership
that will make us get progress”, he
Obasanjo
further noted that the nation needs to work collectively which the
leadership that would make the nation progress in all spheres should be
provided.
He
assured the group that he would help it inform President Muhammadu Buhari to
fix a date for his decoration as the Grand Patron of the association which is
automatic in line with the association’s constitution.
Earlier
in his speech, Chief Commissioner of Scout Association of Nigeria, Olusoga
Sofola-Atibioke, said that the investiture of Obasanjo as its ambassador
was to help build a peaceful and formidable Africa with special focus on
Nigeria.
Source: Vanguard
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