Metro Olusegun Obasanjo Blames Shehu Shagari For Rice Scarcity In Nigeria - Vanguard News

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday said Nigeria was almost achieving self sufficiency in rice production in 1979 before he quit as the military Head of state, saying, the regime of the Second Republic president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, which succeeded him scuttled the strides.


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