By Seyi Babalola
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has cautioned that Nigeria will continue to stagnate due to unimplemented policies.
Obasanjo voiced concern that Nigeria appeared to be moving one stride forward and three steps back owing to the leadership’s incapacity to implement policy.
The former president addressed the issue at a ceremony in Abuja yesterday.
Obasanjo said Nigeria is not bereft of policies to achieve greatness but blamed leaders for the country’s lack of progress.
According to Obasanjo: “It is not enough for leaders to have policies or make statements. We are not short of policies in Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, Nigeria has become a burial ground of policies that are either unimplemented or unexecuted.
“Those who make progress achieved progress, not on the basis of wishing to make progress, but on taking actions. They do not take two steps forward and three steps backward.
“Regrettably this is what we are doing in every aspect of our national life. And as long as we are doing things this way, progress will elude us.”
