Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that Nigeria requires a president with a sound knowledge of the economy to succeed.
Obasanjo said this on Tuesday at this year’s edition of Foursquare Gospel Church annual public lecture, which held at the church’s national headquarters in Yaba, Lagos State.
He said there was no way a president with a poor knowledge of the economy could meet the needs of the citizens, adding that even Jesus Christ understood the economy.
Speaking after the lecture, with the theme: “The trying triangle of economy, faith and politics – Looking through the eye of the needle,” which was delivered by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah, Obasanjo, who was the Chairman of the occasion, said: “There is no doubt at all that if we have to get it right, the three – economy, faith and politics – must go together.
“One of my international friends, the late Helmut Schmidt, who was a former Chancellor of Germany, he died at the age of 96 about three years ago, I was at the burial, and he said if we in Africa have to make it, all our political leaders must have good grounding in economy.
“As a fact from Bishop Kukah, even Jesus Christ understood the economy and if you have a leader who does not understand economics, then you cannot have a leader that will satisfy the need of the people, the physical and the material needs of the people.”
Nigeria needs a president who understands economy to succeed – Obasanjo
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