{"id":70967,"date":"2025-07-18T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70967"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:49:32","slug":"obasanjo-urges-selfless-leadership-to-free-nigeria-from-stagnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/obasanjo-urges-selfless-leadership-to-free-nigeria-from-stagnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo Urges Selfless Leadership to Free Nigeria from Stagnation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rofiat Olokuta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerians to demand genuine and selfless leadership to rescue the country from its current stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Africa Leadership Summit in Abuja on Friday, July 18, 2025, Obasanjo said Nigeria remains in \u201cbondage\u201d due to leaders who prioritize personal gain over national interest.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that no reform would succeed unless the character of leadership changes fundamentally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until we elect leaders who are competent and committed to truth and service, we will keep moving in circles,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former president&#8217;s remarks come amid rising economic hardship, insecurity, and public discontent.<\/p>\n<p>His comments have reignited national debate over leadership quality as the 2027 elections approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rofiat Olokuta &nbsp; Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Nigerians to demand genuine and selfless leadership to rescue the country from its current stagnation. Speaking at the Africa Leadership Summit in Abuja on Friday, July 18, 2025, Obasanjo said Nigeria remains in \u201cbondage\u201d due to leaders who prioritize personal gain over national interest. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70969,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70967\/revisions\/70969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}