In light of Nigeria’s expanding population, former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said that oil and gas are no longer sufficient to feed the country.
Obasanjo made this announcement over the weekend during a visit from the Mzough U Tiv (MUT), the leading socio-cultural group in Benue State’s Tiv territory, to his OOPL Penthouse property in the city of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
Obasanjo urged Nigerians to perceive their nation as being for everyone in a statement sent to Obasanjonews24 by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, to “rescue it and restore it to what God has designed it to be.”
Only agriculture and related businesses, according to Obasanjo, “can deal with the nation’s expanding population.”
He emphasized that agriculture, not oil, would be the only way to feed the country.
The former president emphasized that he had left his arson on his farm in Benue behind him and urged the Tiv people to concentrate on farming.
The socio-political organization gave Obasanjo the honorary title of “Great Warrior” of Tiv country, and he declared he would start an industrial in Benue the next year.
Iorbee Ihagh, the group’s head, had already asked Obasanjo, among other things, to establish a fruit juice business in Benue.
