Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has charged African leaders to discover homegrown solutions to the varied issues dealing with the continent.
Obasanjo spoke on Wednesday whereas taking part in host to a delegation of scholars and youths from a number of African international locations on the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The delegation, amongst whom have been college students leaders from Ethiopia and the Tigray Region, was led by Osisiogu Osikenyi, the President of All-African Students Union (AASU).
The college students have been on a ‘Thank you visit’ to Obasanjo for facilitating the everlasting finish to hostilities settlement between the federal government of Ethiopia and the Tigray Peoples’ Liberation Front (TPLF) in Pretoria final 12 months.
Obasanjo mentioned Africa should take into account the peculiarities of its folks in designing and implementing workable homegrown solutions to its challenges.
According to the previous President, the African Union led to find homegrown solutions to Africa’s issues with the style by which it resolved the civil warfare between Tigray and Ethiopia.
“It is a great lesson for us to know that whatever may be our problem – political, economic, social – in Africa, we can solve them if we go about seeking solutions rightly.
“The peace that we were able to achieve in Tigray between TPLF and the Federal Government of Ethiopia is what you and I will regard as finding African solution to African problem. And this is what our leaders have been clamouring for, even from independence in the early 1960s.
“No problem in Africa is too great for us to solve where there may be problem of peace, insecurity, youths unemployment, youths lack of empowerment, youths frustration and of course, general bad governance,” Obasanjo mentioned.
