Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,” Obasanjo stated that six of his classmates from high school are still living, and none of them are younger than 90.

“I’m not exactly sure how old I am, but I could tell from people who went to school with me. I’ll let you figure out how old I might be,” Obasanjo remarked.

Obasanjo stated, “We have digitized over 3 million materials,” in reference to the Presidential Library’s mission, which he created to maintain institutional memory and historical records. We still need to digitize roughly three million. The concept is that people will be able to access these items after they are digitalized. As document preservation, we record the history, pay attention to the present, and hope that all of these things will motivate the future.

He emphasized that his elementary and secondary school records, letters he wrote while incarcerated—including to his wife and the late General Sani Abacha following the death of his son—manuscripts of books he wrote, and even records of crops he planted while incarcerated are all kept in the library.

“Why the Library of the President? Obasanjo stated, “I think one of the things we do poorly in our society is that we don’t keep records very well; institutional memory is not what we do very well.”
Obasanjo celebrated his 88th birthday in March in spite of this.