Obasanjo blames Jonathan for Nigeria's security challenges

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has, again, put the blame for the security lapses in Nigeria at the door steps of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Obasanjo said Jonathan, as the chief security officer of the country, should find solutions to the security problems of the country.
Obasanjo, who also took on literary giant, Prof. Chinua Achebe, on his comments on the alleged marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria, spoke with pan-African magazine, New African, in its February 2013 edition.
He said of Jonathan and the security challenges facing the country: “If the President is the chief security officer of the country and there is a security problem, where do you go for the solution?
“And if that solution is not coming from the chief security officer, who else inside and outside will get a solution?
“He has the responsibility to solve the problem and nobody else should be blamed but him.”
On Achebe’s comments that the Igbos remain marginalized in the Nigeria project years after the Nigeria civil war, Obasanjo said: “Maybe he is making those remarks because he is not living in Nigeria.
“If he was living in Nigeria, when I was the president of this country, an Igbo lady was my Minister of Finance, an Igbo man was the Governor of the Central Bank, an Igbo man was one of the military service chiefs.
“The permanent representative to the UN was also an Igbo person.
“What more do you want?
“For someone to say the civil war has not ended, 40 years after its conclusion, that person is living in the past.”