In light of Nigeria’s expanding population, former president Olusegun Obasanjo has claimed 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 sociocultural 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 see their nation as being for everyone in a statement made available to PulseNets by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, in order to “save it and restore it to what God has created it to be.”
Only agriculture and related businesses, according to Obasanjo, “can deal with the nation’s expanding population.”
He emphasised that agriculture, not oil, would be the only way to feed the country.
The former president emphasised 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 group 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 leader, had already asked Obasanjo, among other things, to establish a fruit juice business in Benue.
