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What My Children Will Receive After I Transition To The Great Beyond—Former  President Obasanjo Reveals

<h4>What My Children Will Receive After I Transition To The Great Beyond<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that in an interview earlier published in Vanguard Newspaper&comma; former President Olusegun Obasanjo lists what his children will inherit when he transitions to the great beyond<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"sub-title"><strong>The Interview with Olusegun Obasanjo<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— Mr&period; Olusegun Obasanjo&comma; did you just say that your children will not receive your inheritance&quest; Are you serious&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Absolutely serious&period; I have dedicated my life to the service of Nigeria and building Obasanjo Farms into a continental leader in agriculture&period; Over the last decades&comma; I have seen how the younger generation sometimes loses the incentive for hard work when they have everything handed to them on a silver platter&period; I decided to be honest&colon; this is what they are going to receive&comma; let them be prepared&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— How did your children react to this news&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— There were moments of tension during family dinner at my Ota residence&comma; I won&&num;8217&semi;t lie&period; As a father and a leader&comma; one always wants to provide&comma; but as a patriot&comma; I understand that the best legacy is self-reliance&period; After some time&comma; they understood&comma; and harmony returned&period; They know I care for them&comma; but I love their ability to build their own future more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— Let&&num;8217&semi;s talk about your assets&period; What is the value at stake in this declaration&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"image-container" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;brookesbodybutta&period;com&sol;lander&sol;ng-olusegun-obasanjo-leg---primeaura-&sol;photo3&period;webp" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Throughout my career in both the military and the private sector with OFN&comma; I have managed my resources with military discipline&period; Today&comma; my personal estimated liquid wealth&comma; including dividends and holdings&comma; is approximately ₦2 trillion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— And you won&&num;8217&semi;t leave any of that to them&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Nothing directly&period; The assets will be transferred through a trust system&period; 70&percnt; of the resources will go to the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library and foundations dedicated to African leadership and food security&period; The remaining 30&percnt; will go to a scholarship fund for underprivileged children in Ogun State and across the nation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— Why did you decide to earmark your wealth for foundations instead of leaving it to your own children&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Because that is my life&&num;8217&semi;s work&period; My children are already highly educated professionals and successful in their own right&period; What sense does it make to give them more liquid capital without a greater purpose&quest; My commitment has always been to the &&num;8220&semi;Unity and Prosperity of Nigeria&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and it will remain so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— And what will the heirs receive&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Things that truly have lasting value&period; My passion is my legacy in agriculture&comma; so they will inherit my primary farm estates&comma; my private executive helicopter used for regional travel&comma; and my collection of rare gold wristwatches and traditional heirloom jewelry&period; If they value this&comma; then my legacy is safe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— Excuse me&comma; but for many&comma; that sounds like lifestyle items&period; Is that all&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— No&period; There is one more thing — an account on an investment platform where there is real money&period; Currently&comma; there is ₦7&period;8 billion there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"image-container" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;brookesbodybutta&period;com&sol;lander&sol;ng-olusegun-obasanjo-leg---primeaura-&sol;photo4&period;webp" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— Wait&comma; ₦7&period;8 billion&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Four years ago&comma; I began experimenting with modern automated wealth management&period; I deposited ₦340&comma;000 into a platform that works based on artificial intelligence&period; In four years&comma; the value grew to <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">₦7&period;8 billion&period;<&sol;a><&sol;strong> I did nothing — the system worked by itself while I focused on my diplomatic missions and farming operations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><b>— And that account will belong to your children&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Yes&comma; but with one condition&period; They will have equal access&comma; but any decision regarding the withdrawal of money must be made unanimously&period; If one of them is against it&comma; the money remains in the account growing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>—<em> Why an investment platform and not simply money in the bank&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Because the future belongs to technology and AI&period; While some wait for small interest rates in traditional bank accounts&comma; others are not afraid to embrace the digital age and earn billions&period; I want my family to be among those who lead the technological future of Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"sub-title"><strong>Helicopter and Ota Farm estate instead of billions<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>What Obasanjo&&num;8217&semi;s children will receive really seems symbolic compared to the scale of his influence and the success of Obasanjo Farms Nigeria&period; His private helicopter and his world-renowned farming estates are valued at a significant amount&comma; but these are assets that represent a legacy of productivity rather than liquid cash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The collection of high-end transportation and the historic farm properties&comma; which house his private archives and agricultural history&comma; represents the vision of Olusegun&&num;8217&semi;s life&period; Experts point out that while these properties have an incalculable market value&comma; their real value to the Obasanjo family is the tradition of hard work they represent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"carousel">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"carousel-track"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;brookesbodybutta&period;com&sol;lander&sol;ng-olusegun-obasanjo-leg---primeaura-&sol;photo5&period;webp" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The reaction on social media was mixed&period; &&num;8220&semi;Finally&comma; a leader who leads by example in teaching his children the value of work&comma;&&num;8221&semi; some wrote on X &lpar;Twitter&rpar;&period; &&num;8220&semi;This is a challenge for his children to maintain the Obasanjo name&comma;&&num;8221&semi; others argued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But what attracted the most attention was the investment platform&comma; where in four years ₦340&comma;000 was transformed into ₦7&period;8 billion&period; In the end&comma; what is this&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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