Laide Raheem, AbeokutaFormer President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on African leaders to work together on finding homegrown solutions to the myriads of problems confronting the continent, instead of relying solely on international development partners. Speaking further, Obasanjo said it was important for Africa to consider the peculiarities of its people in designing and implementing workable homegrown solutions to the problems confronting the continent. The former President said, the African Union (AU) took a lead in finding solutions to Africa’s problems with the way it resolved the civil war between Tigray and Ethopia. And this is what our leaders have been clamouring for even from independence in the early 1960s. There may be problem of peace, problem of insecurity, problem of youths unemployment, youths lack of empowerment, youths lack of acquisition of skills, youths frustration and of course general bad governance”, Obasanjo said.
