Former Prime Minister of Kenyan, Raila Odinga, on Wednesday said former President Goodluck Jonathan renewed hope for democracy in Africa.
“Before then most African leaders would not concede defeat as an incumbent,” Odinga said.
Speaking on the topic “The crises of nation states in Africa,” He stated that the bane of the African continent were dictatorship, corruption and ethnicity.
“Ethnicity is the disease of the elite. They are the people who would always fan the embers of ethnicity and divisive tendencies whenever they lose their selfish interest,” he said.
Odinga described the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe as a foremost Pan-Africanist. The former Kenyan prime minister added that Azikiwe’s pioneering role in the liberation of the African continent was unprecedented.
He also commended the efforts being made by President Muhammadu Buhari in fighting corruption
The chairman of the occassion, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in his remarks, noted that the late Azikiwe was “the greatest Igbo man to come out of Nigeria.”
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