Former Nigerian president and first democratic president, Olusegun Obasanjo has finally spoken on the American election which saw Donald Trump emerge victorious, describing it as an ‘act of God’.
While speaking at the launch of the French version of a book entitled ‘Making Africa Work’ in Pretoria, South Africa, the former Nigerian head of state and president stated that God made Trump president to humble America.
He also indicated that the Americans are not really different from the rest from the world in their ability to make the wrong choices such as voting for Trump.
“The fact that America can produce a Trump in this day and age, it means Americans are as human as we are,” he said in a rare reflection that appeared to have mocked the US election last November.
I am not justifying what African leaders are doing. If our leaders are doing wrong, we should say that they are doing wrong”
The retired military general added that he was happy with the way things turned out in the last US elections.
“Trump has come so that America can be humbled, and we can also learn that lesson,” he said.
The book making “Making Africa work” is authored by Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst, Olusegun Obasanjo and Dickie Davis.
Obasanjo, while speaking about the book, disclosed that the African continent still needed direct foreign investment, adding that;
“Nobody can do it for us, and it is all of us, and if we do it, we will get it right,”.