Nobody can buy my conscience, says Obasanjo.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the displacement of the values of honesty and hard work by the love for money and other material things as one of the causes of the problems before Nigeria.

Obasanjo said this on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at the Prof Abayomi Oluwatosin Jiboku Building and Entrepreneurship Centre at the Lariken International College.

He said the amount of money and number of cars and houses built by individuals should not be taken to determine their level of success but their positive contributions to society and the number of lives they affected.

The ex-president said it was unfortunate that Nigerians had jettisoned the values of integrity, truthfulness and love for one’s neighbours with the strong desire to get rich quickly and by all means.

He, however, said nobody could buy his conscience, no matter the amount of money offered.

Obasanjo said, “One of the ways we have problems in our society today is the values we cherish. Money-making is the value now pervasive.

“In Yorubaland, money-making is not one of the values that we take to. Omoluabi, truthfulness, integrity, truth, industry and hard work were our values. Where have they gone? Why have we put them aside, and all we are striving for is money? Where is honour in our values?..

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