Nigeria’s Presidency has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his endorsement of opposition candidate Peter Obi ahead of general elections to be held in February Obsanjo, who held office from 1999 to 2007, recently said that Obi «has an advantage over other candidates» and stressed that the current situation in Nigeria «has gone from the frying pan to the flames», in a criticism of the management of current President Muhammadu Buhari.
In response, the spokesman of the Nigerian Presidency, Garba Shehu, has published a series of messages on the social network Twitter in which he calls Obasanjo «morally squalid» and blames his criticism on his «frustration».
«Former President Obasanjo is well known to all and there is no need to describe him,» he said, before stressing that he «will not stop attacking Buhari because the former president will not stop being jealous of anyone who beats him in the country’s development process.»
«Buhari is ahead of Obasanjo in every field of national development and that is a cardinal sin for Obasanjo, whose hallucinations tell him that he is the best that has ever led Nigeria and that there will never be another like him,» he has maintained.
He also pointed out that «Buhari has been applauded for trying to do what the Constitution says a leader should do, serve one or two terms at the most and leave». «Having tried to extend his tenure and failed, Obasanjo’s fantasy mind must be telling him that he is the one under attack,» he argued.
«However, it is not on Buhari’s radar because experience has shown, especially lately in West Africa, where there have been at least three successful coups and several attempts, that a third term or an extension of the term is a recipe for political instability,» he has reviewed.
Shehu further noted that «as president, Obasanjo destabilized internal democracy by orchestrating a series of impeachments against governors who did not comply with his highly imperial administration» and added that Obasanjo’s tenure «represented the dark days of Nigeria’s democracy through a series of assaults on the Constitution.»
«For his part, a few weeks ago in Washington, U.S. President Joe Biden described Buhari during a meeting with African heads of state and government as a champion of democracy and an example for the leaders of African states,» he said.
Therefore, he insisted that the former president «has adopted a vengeful posture» and said that «hell for Obasanjo is that any president who comes after him is not his puppet to do what he wants in any matter and at any time». «He keeps attacking out of frustration,» he has remonstrated.
Obi, candidate of the Labor Party (LP), figures as one of the main favorites ahead of the February elections along with Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of the government’s All Progressives Congress (APC), and Abubakar Atiku, of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
