Boma Achenimie 
Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said his administration left the country’s economy better than it is now.
Speaking in Abeokuta, at the Safe Online Youth Fellowship Bootcamp, Obasanjo boasted of his administration reshaping Nigeria’s economy and leaving it in a better shape when he left office in 2007.
The former president recalled landmark achievements by his administration while in office, noting that he’s government set Nigeria free from the bondage of debt and set the pace for an uninterrupted democracy for 25 years.
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According to Obasanjo: “When I came in as elected President, I wanted to get debt relief because we were spending $3.5 billion every year servicing debt and the quantum of the debt was not going down.
“Today, I can say that I made Nigeria better than I found it from an economic perspective.
“I found $3.7 billion in the reserves and we were spending $3.5 billion to service our debt. By the time I left, we had a debt of about $36 billion with the debt relief, and I left with a debt of $3.6 billion.
“Also, I left a reserve of over $50 billion. I also achieved excess crude for the country worth over $25 billion.”
Obasanjo, who simply defined success as leaving a place better than one found it, said that he achieved that in his administration with excellent track records.
