Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Donald Trump came to humble the United States of America.
Obasanjo said the fact that Americans can vote Trump means they are as human as Africans.
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‘‘The fact that America can produce a Trump in this day and age, it means Americans are as human as we are,’‘ he was quoted to have said.
Obasanjo said this during an event earlier this week at the French Embassy in Pretoria.
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‘‘I am not justifying what African leaders are doing. If our leaders are doing wrong, we should say that they are doing wrong. Trump has come so that America can be humbled, and we can also learn that lesson,’‘ he added.
He said it was time for Africa to show the rest of the world that it can take charge of its own future.
“Nobody can do it for us, and it is all of us, and if we do it, we will get it right,’‘ he added.
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