Obasanjo Reflects on U.S. Ties Under Carter as Trump’s Nigeria Remarks Stir Debate

Following a remark on the ongoing controversy over President Donald Trump’s military invasion threat on Nigeria, the former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday disclosed that under his watch as the Nigeria’s Head of State, late United States President Jimmy Carter would not do anything in Africa without his knowledge.

‎Speaking on Monday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during the Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat (6.0) organised by the Youth Development Centre, an arm of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Obasanjo tactfully make recollections to how the US under Carter held Nigeria in high esteem as he said, “When I was military head of state, President Jimmy Carter was the president of America, he would not do anything in Africa without informing us. They are not taking permission from us but they will tell us that ‘they are doing this.’

‎During the mentorship session at the retreat, Obasanjo challenged African youths to be positively disruptive in order to take their rightful positions in leadership across the continent. He told them to see themselves as leaders of today and not leaders of tomorrow.