Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerian leaders to uphold truth, transparency, and selflessness while empowering youths for present and future leadership.

Obasanjo made this call on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at the grand reunion and maiden lecture series of the Royal College of Defence Studies, RCDS, United Kingdom Alumni Association, Nigerian chapter.

DAILY POST reports that RCDS was established in 1927 in the United Kingdom.

Represented by the Deputy Director, Olusegun Obasanjo Leadership Institute, Prof Samuel Daramola, the ex-Nigerian leader defined youth as a period between childhood and adulthood marked by vitality, idealism, hope, expectation, dreams, and a touch of adventure and naivety.

He observed that present leaders once passed through these phases marked by fancy, energy, beauty and fantasy, but now the youth face numerous challenges in a fractured world.

“Some of us were youth immediately after the Second World War; I was. Most of you were youths at the height of the Cold War.

“The world was not perfect, but there was some order, respect for international law, rules and regulations.

“There were threats, but no impunity. They talked of the balance of terror in those days with reasonable stability, predictability, peace and common security with shared responsibility and prosperity among the leading nations of the world,” he said.

Uphold truth, transparency, selflessness’ – Obasanjo urges Nigerian leaders