Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president, has said that the “Emi lokan” ideology is a bad way of thinking and leading that the country doesn’t need right now.
In a letter that he personally signed and titled “My Appeal to all Nigerians,” the former leader of Nigeria stated that the Emi lokan concept cannot reinvent and invest in a new Nigeria.
“Let me say right away that ‘Emi Lokan’ (My turn) and ‘I have paid my dues’ are the same thing, and they are wrong attitudes and mentalities for the leadership of Nigeria now,” he said. They are unable to establish a new pedestal on which to invest in and reinvent a new Nigeria based on an All-Nigeria Government for Nigeria’s liberation and restoration.
“Such a government must have representation from all sectors of our national life, public, private, civil society, professional, labor, employers, and the diaspora,” he added. The former president had declared, “The solution should be in we and us, not in me and I.”
In the letter, Obasanjo urged Nigerians, particularly young people, to back Mr. Peter Obi in the general election this year.
In the meantime, At an event in Ogun state in the middle of last year, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said live on television, “…Emi lo kan egbe kini yi wa.” Bring this to me because it is my turn to be president. The statement was criticized by a lot of political foes, but the former Lagos governor’s supporters were mostly supportive