NO ALTERNATIVE TO DEMOCRACY- Pres. Olusegun Obasanjo.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke on Friday at his Presidential Hilltop residence in Abeokuta when officials of the National Association of Nigerians Students visited him.

The former head of state, reasoned on his near death experience under the late Sunni Abacha regime, he recalled that he and some retired military officers and civilians were jailed in 1995 for allegedly plotting coup det’at against the Abacha regime in 1998.

He said, “The alternative to democracy is worse than democracy. I experienced that. Abacha put me in prison and I was about to be killed. If it was under democracy (democratic rule) that would not happen.

He further pledged to support the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to succeed, as there is no alternative to democracy“ I will work for the success of this current dispensation. There is no excuse, because there is no alternative to democracy.

“The alternative to democracy is worse than democracy itself, I experienced that when I was jailed by Abacha and waiting execution in prison,I was about to be killed”, that couldn’t have happen in a democracy rule

Obasanjo, who said no matter what the critics of President Muhammadu Buhari might be saying, he is been proving them wrong, claiming that in the last two and a half months Nigerians had started to witness a Nigeria of their dreams.

He insisted the country is heading towards the right direction, although the country has run into deep trouble so many times before, but God had not allowed it to collapse.

He further pledge his support for the PMB government adding that he will do whatever he can to make sure it succeed as there seems to be no alternative.

Sources:NANS,vanguard,knightPen,