I don’t know my age, I can tell by former classmates – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has once again disclosed that he does not know his age, adding that he could determine it by looking at his former classmates.

Obasanjo made the statement on Sunday during the Toyin Falola Interviews series tagged, “A Conversation with His Excellency, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.”

While reiterating that he doesn’t know his true age, Obasanjo said there are six of his classmates who may have that knowledge.

“I don’t know my exact age, but I could judge from those who were in school with me. I have given you an example of Olubara (Oba Jacob Olufemi Omolade, the Olubara of Ibara), who is still alive.

“I believe there are six of my classmates in secondary school that I know are still alive, and none of them is less than 90 years of age. So I leave it to you to guess what my age could be.

“My school record card in primary school, I have been able to keep them, and when I became President and I wanted to establish the library, they were available to be exhibited.

“My records in primary and secondary school and even the manuscripts of books that I have written, those that I wrote in prison and so on, even crops of maize that I planted when I was in prison, they are there, and somehow I was able to keep them.

“Why the Presidential Library? I believe one of the things we don’t do too well in our society is that we don’t keep records too well, institutional memory is not what we do very well,” Obasanjo said.