I still don’t know my exact age – Obasanjo

I still don’t know my exact age – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reiterated that he doesn’t recognise his real age.

however, he stated that he may want to guesstimate from people who were his primary school friends, and six of them are nevertheless alive, without any of them less than 90 years.

the previous President spoke on Sunday, Dec. 7, at some point of the Toyin Falola Interviews collection tagged, “A communication with his Excellency, leader Olusegun Obasanjo.”

The interview was once anchored by Professor Toyin Falola, a renowned Nigerian Historian in addition to Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Dr. Mathew Kukah and former Presidential Candidate, Professor Kingsley Moghalu.

Obasanjo said that he installation the presidential library to hold institutional memory, hold facts of factors, including, “we’ve digitalised over 3m materials. We still have approximately the same number, 3m to digitalise.

“The idea is when these substances are digitalised, people will have get entry to to them. this is number one. As report maintenance, we preserve the beyond, take note of the existing and we need a majority of these to inspire the destiny,” the previous President of Nigeria said.

He said that the library has his primary school document, his facts in secondary school, his letter to Abacha when his son di£d in an coincidence, letter to his spouse when he was once still in jail.

but he reiterated that he doesn’t recognize his real age but there are six of his classmates who may have an notion about his actual age.

He said, “I don’t recognise my specific age but I should decide from folks that were in faculty with me, i have given you an instance of Olubara (Oba Jacob Olufemi Omolade, the Olubara of Ibara) who is nonetheless alive.

“I trust there are six of my classmates in secondary faculty that I realize are still alive and none of them is less than ninety years of age. So I go away it to you to wager what my age is probably.

“My faculty document card in primary college, i have been able to keep them and after I became President and that i desired to establish the library, they had been to be had to be exhibited. My records in number one and secondary school or even the manuscripts of books that i have written, those who I wrote in prison and so forth, even vegetation of maize that I planted while i was in prison, they’re there and by some means i used to be capable of maintain them.

“Why the Presidential Library? I accept as true with one of the matters we don’t do too properly in our society is that we don’t preserve records too nicely, institutional memory isn’t what we do thoroughly.”