Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday revealed that picking a running mate in the 1999 presidential election was one of the mistakes he made in life.
He dropped the comment while speaking in Abeokuta at a leadership and entrpreneurship mentoring session with selected group of school students.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that Obasanjo, who won the 1999 and 2003 presidential elections, ran with Atiku Abubakar as his running mate on both occasions.
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Meanwhile, Alhaji Abubakar is presently the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 elections.
‘I don’t say I don’t make mistakes – I made many of them,’ Obasanjo stated.
‘But one thing that has happened to me is that God has never disappointed me. And that is very important.
‘For instance, one of the mistakes I made was picking a number two when I was going to become President.
‘But because it is a genuine mistake, God saved me out of it.’
Mr Obasanjo, a retired general, also said many people believed that him joining the army was a mistake.
‘Or when Abacha wanted to arrest me, the American ambassador said that they will arrest me and that America has asked I should be given asylum,’ he said. ‘I said no, I will come home.
‘It could have been a mistake because I could have lost my life.
‘So many things I could have seen as mistakes, but God saved me from them all.’
Africa Today News, New York recalls that Obasanjo and Atiku were at loggerheads for most part of their administration.