Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has a message for Nigerian youths.

He said: “With the “Not Too Young to Run” campaign, you can see that those that are contesting now are between 70 and 80 years old; how can the youth run?”

“Another thing inhibiting youth from running is the amount of money involved in going into politics. I hope that things should not continue like this.”

“I was 39 years old when I became the military Head of State. Twenty years later, I came back as civilian President, but those there now do not want to allow the youth. If things continue like this, I do not know how you can come in.”

“I have no right to say what another man’s belief is inferior to mine. If God had wanted all of us to be of the same religion, he would have made it so and since He did not make it so, no person should attempt to make it so.”

“Young people should learn at a very early stage in life that if there are five religions in the world, that is how God wants it to be. If there are 10, that is how God wants it. All religions originate from the same source.”

“If you are a Muslim and you did not live the way the God wants you to live, you cannot enter Aljannah. If you are a Christian and you did not live the way God wants you to live, the same thing, you will not enter paradise.”

“If this is the basis of religion, it is doing the right thing for the benefits of mankind; you don’t have to condemn any person because of what he believed.”