“I still don’t know my exact age” – Obasanjo
Aged President Olusegun Obasanjo has admitted that he does not know his loyal age, announcing he can finest estimate it by evaluating himself along with his surviving necessary and secondary college classmates.
Speaking on Sunday, for the interval of the Toyin Falola Interviews themed ‘A Conversation with His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,’ the earlier Nigerian chief published that as a minimum six of his classmates are unexcited alive, all now older than 90.
The interview featured Professor Toyin Falola, Bishop of Sokoto Diocese Matthew Hassan Kukah, and former presidential candidate Professor Kingsley Moghalu.
Obasanjo explained that even though he has preserved infinite private and historical documents over time, none include a verifiable file of his proper birth date.
“I don’t know my loyal age, however I would possibly maybe well well make a option from of us that had been in college with me. I feel there are six of my classmates in secondary college who are unexcited alive, and none of them is less than 90 years of age. So I leave it to you to guess what my age will be.” He said
The earlier president gentle the dialog to highlight the importance of file-keeping and institutional memory, one of many motivations at the aid of building the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL).
In accordance with him, more than three million materials maintain already been digitised, with another three million waiting for digitisation.
Obasanjo disclosed that the library homes an in depth sequence of his private recordsdata, along side his necessary and secondary college documents, manuscripts of books he wrote, some carried out for the interval of his imprisonment, and even agricultural samples equivalent to maize vegetation he planted whereas in penal advanced.
He added that letters he wrote at heaps of defining moments in his lifestyles are also saved there, along side one addressed to the slack Traditional Sani Abacha after the death of his son, and another to his wife for the interval of his incarceration.
