Incredible: See the Mansion Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo Donated for Isolation(Pictures)

bettyannbrownMar 27, 2020Read original

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who have served served Nigerians at two highest capacities.

He is a Nigerian military and political leader who served as military head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. Ideologically a Nigerian nationalist, he was a member of the People's Democratic Party.

Just Yesterday the Two Time President of Nigeria did something worth commendable and emulating.

""The Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has donated his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta to the Ogun State government to use as an isolation centre as the country steps up efforts to contain the coronavirus disease.

Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the 32-room compound, the former residence of the politician, was donated because Obasanjo is concerned about the pandemic. “I think those who can in one way or another assist in this situation should do so,” Obasanjo said.""

Born in the village of Ibogun-Olaogun to a farming family of the Owu branch of the Yoruba, Obasanjo was educated largely in Abeokuta. Joining the Nigerian Army, where his specialism was in engineering, he spent time assigned in the Congo, Britain, and India, rising to the rank of major.

Obasanjo was won the 1999 Nigerian presidential election, he ran as a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, and won with help from military generals Ibrahim Babangida and Aliyu Mohammed Gusau who delivered the Northern establishment for him, and defeated Chief Olu Falae, the joint candidate of the All Peoples Party, and the Alliance for Democracy.

Obasanjo was re-elected In the 2003 Nigerian presidential election, and won by a margin of more than 11 million vote.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been one of the outstanding presidents of Nigeria who achieved many fates in the Office.

God bless Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for his kind gesture towards Nigerians.