Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari over his refusal to sign the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) agreement, saying the President’s hand is too weak to sign and that Nigeria will soon have a president that will sign the agreement.
He spoke at the AFREXIM Bank’s annual Babacar Ndiaye lecture held in Bali, Indonesia.
Also speaking at the lecture, Nobel Prize winning economist, Jeffrey Sachs called on African leaders to team up and create African Education fund that will be devoted to ensuring quality free education for every African child. Speaking on the theme of the lecture, Global Power Disequilibrium, Trade Wars and Implications for Africa, Obasanjo stressed that AfCTA is good for African countries assuring that Nigeria will soon sign the agreement.
Hopefully we will soon have a president who will be able to sign because the president that is there now, his hands are too weak to sign. Africa should not be seen as one Country, but one market and that is very important. I believe that the political will of our leaders that are there now will get them to move along.
