No amount of money, anything, can buy conscience, support, Obasanjo says

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has decried how money-making has become the value people now cherish in the country.

He said that nowadays anyone who has money can buy anything but that is not with him, adding that no amount of money can buy his conscience and support for anything.

According to Obasanjo, the love for money has seen people discard the real values like honesty and hard work.

He spoke on Friday during the inauguration of the Prof Abayomi Oluwatosin Jiboku Building and Entrepreneurship Centre at the Lariken International College, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,

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?

“Nowadays, anyone who has money can buy anything but not with me. If you have money, you cannot buy my conscience and support for anything. In any case, if you have all the money in the world, of what purpose will it be?

“How do you describe success? I define success as you making a place better than you met it. It is not the amount of money you have, not the number of houses built, not the number of cars you have. It is how much you have contributed to making a place better than you find it.”