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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the \u201cpersistent\u201d aversion to people of southeastern extraction, which he describes as Igbophobia.<\/div>\n
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\nSpeaking at an event in Anambra State to commemorate Governor Chukwuma Soludo\u2019s one year in office, Obasanjo recalled his work with the professor of economics as well as the current Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.<\/p>\n

In Obasanjo\u2019s administration which spanned 1999 to 2007, Soludo served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), while Okonjo-Iweala was the Minister of Finance.<\/p>\n

The former president stated that Soludo, who worked closely with him as an economic adviser, \u201cnever misadvised me\u201d, and the economist\u2019s performance impressed him so much so that he was asked to lead the apex bank.<\/p>\n

According to the 85-year-old statesman, Soludo was the second Nigerian CBN governor who was not a commercial banker of some sort.<\/p>\n

However, soon after appointing the academic, Obasanjo found himself being confronted by a dissenting voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody came to me and said, \u2018Wow! You have ruined the economy of Nigeria.\u2019 I said, \u2018How?\u2019 He said, \u2018An Igbo woman, Minister of Finance; an Igbo man, Governor of the Central Bank? Then you have clearly completed the task of ruining the economy of Nigeria.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why he said that, except for what I can call Igbophobia, and I don\u2019t take that lightly. It remains, it persists. But when you have that type of thing that was said to me and the type of thing that you know is going on, as I have just called it, what do we do with it?<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe we have to go back to the scripture, which says we must conquer evil with good. And whoever you are, wherever people are afraid of you, you must make yourself friendly to those who are afraid of you and earn their friendship by being good to them, and that is what we have to do,\u201d Obasanjo said.<\/p>\n

The former president noted from his personal experience, nothing wins friendship like one being friendly.<\/p>\n

He added that the appointments of Okonjo-Iweala and Soludo were \u201cprobably the best of the appointments that I made when I was president\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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