Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday challenged African leaders to re-examine their governance systems to achieve renaissance on the continent.
The former President made the call at the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings (AAM2025) in Abuja.
He stressed that Africa’s progress depended on the ability of its leaders to work and move together and prioritise the continent’s interests.
Obansanjo noted that the current system of Western liberal democracy, inherited from colonial powers, was not working in the best interests of the continent and must be interrogated and reviewed to suit Africa’s interests.
He suggested that Africa’s pre-colonial systems of governance, which emphasised communalism and collective decision-making, could provide valuable lessons for modern governance and stop corruption.
“Our system does not look at the opposition and the government. So it should be a government of everyone working together. We had it before the advent of colonisation.
“Now is the time to say that the government and opposition are not working for us, it is not even working for them either. Our system and democracy have been monetised,” the former Nigerian leader noted.
Obasanjo lamented that Nigeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa are not where they were supposed to be economically and politically.
“How much of the world do our leaders understand? What does the world owe us as Africans?
“If we know, we will get the right policies starting from the community level to the national, sub-regional, and continental level, and those policies will relate to the situation of the world we are in,” he concluded.
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