‘Buhari is Running The Country On Old Ideas’ — Iyabo Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s daughter and former Ogun State Central district representative in the senate(2007-2011), Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has revealed that nothing has changed in Nigeria and the country is still being run on old ideas. Notable among the old ideas she was referring to was President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that the country should fall back on Oil to find a way out of her current predicament.
Giving an assessment of developments in the country, she said it is sad how a country with so many talented people could be in such mess and that the future actually is frightening.
“How are children and grandchildren going to do in the future when no one is planning for the future?
Do you see the “Change” Nigerians made at the federal level last year leading the country in the right direction?Twice recently I have come across interviews of the President Muhammadu Buhari  and it seems his focus is just on oil and gas. Focusing on oil and gas, a natural resource we have no control over is what got us to where we are and somehow he thinks it will get us out! The time of oil as a king commodity is past and never coming back.
In the history of humanity, the commodity that becomes king changes from time to time. From the time of the OPEC formation in the early seventies till now, oil had been king.
It will no longer be because if we continue using it at the rate, we have in the last 100 years we will not have a planet. Countries that didn’t use their income from oil to generate other sources of income will be in dire straits, hence Nigeria’s economic woes. Taking oil for granted as if it would be at high prices forever is idiotic.
Now if change means more focus on oil and gas as the President is saying then obviously change has not come.”