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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday harped on his argument that Nigeria requires a President with a sound knowledge of the economy to make a headway.<\/div>\n
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This, he said, was what a former German Chancellor, the late\u00a0<\/b>Helmut Schmidt, who was one of his international friends, told him during a discussion about African countries.<\/p>\n

He argued that there was no way that a President with a poor knowledge of the economy could meet the needs of the citizens, adding that even Jesus Christ understood the economy.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo spoke in Lagos at this year\u2019s edition of Foursquare Gospel Church annual public lecture, which held at the church\u2019s national headquarters in Yaba.<\/p>\n

He chaired the lecture with the theme, \u201cThe trying triangle of economy, faith and politics \u2013 Looking through the eye of the needle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lecture was delivered by the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the lecture, the former President said even if Kukah was right in his description of politics as a game, politics must be the most serious game created by man.<\/p>\n

He said he agreed with Kukah that even Jesus Christ had a good knowledge of the economy.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo said he believed that for Nigeria to get it right, the country must strike a balance among economy, faith and politics.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThere is no doubt at all that if we have to get it right the three (economy, faith and politics) must go together.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my international friends, the late\u00a0Helmut Schmidt,\u00a0<\/b>who was a former Chancellor of Germany \u2013\u00a0\u00a0he died at the age of 96 about three years ago, I was at the burial \u2013 and he said if we in Africa have to make it, all our political leaders must have good grounding in economy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cAs a fact from Bishop Kukah, even Jesus Christ understood the economy and if you have a leader who does not understand economics, then you cannot have a leader that will satisfy the need of the people, the physical and the material needs of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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