African leaders are happy over Jonathan’s defeat to Buhari – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said
that African leaders are happy over the defeat of
President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28
presidential election.
Obasanjo made this known while speaking to an
audience at the United States Institute of Peace
in Washington DC.
The former president stated that his checks in a
number of African countries suggested they were
happy over the result of the election.
“Some Nigerians described President Jonathan as
a moving train who was stopped from collapsing
Nigeria,” he said.
The former President, who led the African Union
Observation Mission to the April 2015 General
Election in Sudan to the event, said, “I have
visited six countries since the election, they are
as happy about the results. It is good not only
for Nigeria, it is good for Africa and I believe it is
good for the world.”
He also advised African leaders to shift from the
mentality of clinching to power by all means,
urging them to demonstrate statesmanship for
the survival of the African continent.
According to Obasanjo, the President-elect, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, “has moved Nigeria one very
important step up in our democracy.”
He also advised African leaders to have
consultations with elders in order to promote
public accountability and pave way for leaders
who were fearful of giving up power to step down
in favour of a future of statesmanship.
Obasanjo said, “Governance reform and capacity-
building programmes, for example, are apt to look
everywhere but within. For a change, let us move
away from the melancholic issue of what is
wrong with Africa.