Presidential frontrunner, Obasanjo, who was interviewed live on Nigerian television yesterday (Thursday), spoke of the need to boost investor confidence, rehabilitate the infrastructure, improve fuel supplies and pursue the adoption of “appropriate technolgy”. He also pledged, if elected, to set up an anti-corruption agency with the power to recover money at home and abroad.
On foreign relations, he stressed the whole question of peacekeeping and conflict resolution in West Africa must be addressed. “I wonder why the United Nations is not doing as much as it should,” he said. “Is it because they believe Nigeria can bear the burden alone?” He said that if he became president “Nigerian troops will not remain anywhere a day longer than they should remain”.
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