Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has claimed that no amount of money can buy his conscience or support.
He decried how the love of material things and money had displaced the values of honesty and hard work.
Obasanjo stated this at the inauguration of the Prof Abayomi Oluwatosin Jiboku Building and Entrepreneurship Centre at the Lariken International College, on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,
He said, “One of the ways we have problems in our society today is the values we cherish. Money-making is the value now pervasive.
“In Yorubaland, money-making is not one of the values that we take to. Omoluabi, truthfulness, integrity, truth, industry and hard work were our values. Where have they gone? Why have we put them aside and all we are striving for is money? Where is honour in our values?
No one can buy my support for anything – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that no one
can buy his conscience and support for anything.
Obasanjo said this on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State
capital, at the inauguration of the Prof Abayomi Oluwatosin Jiboku Building and
Entrepreneurship Centre at the Lariken International College.
The ex-president said the displacement of values of honesty
and hard work by the love for money and other material things as one of the
causes of the problems before Nigeria.
He said the amount of money and number of cars, as well as
houses built by individuals, should not be taken to determine their level of
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