Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday took a retrospective look at the state of the nation, blaming the current plethora of challenges bedeviling Nigeria on the choice of the three-leader regional structure practiced by the country at independence.

Obasanjo declared that the citizens’ insistence and scheming for a Nigeria’s president from among their kinsmen as evidenced in 1960 when the country attained independence with three leaders has continued to take toll on the politics till date.

The former military leader and two-time president stated these on Tuesday when he hosted the Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau-led League of Northern Democrats at his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.