I ENJOYED INSULT WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT - OBASANJO

The erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he derived joy in any insult given to him by his critics or perceived political opponents when he was in power.

He noted that he has all the publish insults he received during his administration inside the archives at his Presidential library in Abeokuta.

“If you visit the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, you will find thousands of archived newspaper comics and columns meant to spite and insult my person even as a sitting President.

" No individual or group of people was ever queried or jailed or repressed for expressing this freedom. Rather, I encouraged them because I derived fun and pleasure from the humour as I know who I am and nobody needs to tell me who and what I am not ," he said

He described himself as incurable optimist on a brighter future of Africa noting that Africa as a continent has began a gradual process of shedding out corruption in leadership and governance.

Obansanjo however stated that the reason Africa seem backward is because of the inhumane treatment it received from European countries.

“The stain and stench of slave trade, the cold war, poor governance made some Africans to laud the good old days of colonialism, corruption and problem of human rights violations.

“In all these, I am delighted that the so-called great European historians who professed that Africa has no history lived to realise that African history and culture had impacts and ramifications on other parts of the world including theirs”, he said.

He expressed satisfaction because all factors that militate against growth and development have been done away with in the Continent.