Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo has for the first time spoken about reasons surrounding his hostile relationship with current president Muhammadu Buhari, his vice Yemi Osinbajo and Ike Ekweremadu.
Mr Obasanjo was granting a hot interview to Ghana’s Ghanaweb and for the first time.
According to former Nigerian Army general who vigorously campaigned for Buhari to become president in 2015, what he is seeing of the incompetence at play is shocking, accusing Buhari of woefully failing Nigerians and needed to be booted out.
Buhari, a former dictator-turned-democrat is also accused of being a democrat only in name. Mr Obasanjo also accused Buhari of being sick but refusing to “go home” and rest but is adopting illegal tactics to cling to power at all cost, likening him to Abacha, the famous Nigerian Kleptocrat.
“Buhari has intimidated and harassed the private sector, attacked the National Assembly and now unconstitutionally and recklessly attacked and intimidated the judiciary to cow them to submission,” Obasanjo said.
Listing a litany of issues in which Buhari has abused his office or shown abject cluelessness, Obasanjo in the 21-Minute long interview simply bathed the Buhari government naked in Ghana.
Speaking to Ghanaweb’s Kyenkyenhene Boateng on his yet to be aired 21 minutes with KKB he said “we must not sleep and put our head on the same pillow. That means that we must think and must be able to think and come up and say I think and must be this way”, justifying his entrenched stance against the Buhari administration in the teaser MyNewsGh.com obtained.
Obasanjo is championing a crusade to vote out Buhari for failing to manage the country’s security crisis among others saying “The security situation has deteriorated with kidnappings everywhere and Boko Haram being more in action and nobody should deceive Nigerians about this,” Obasanjo said.
“This administration has reached the end of its wit even in handling security issues, particularly the Boko Haram issue, partly due to misuse of security apparatus and poor equipment, deployment, coordination and cooperation,” he added.
“Boko Haram has also been empowered by the Nigerian government through payment of ransom of millions of dollars which each administration disingenuously always denies.”
He accused Buhari of resorting to desperate plans, despite being sick, to retain himself in power, like former military dictator Sani Abacha.
“Buhari has intimidated and harassed the private sector, attacked the National Assembly and now unconstitutionally and recklessly attacked and intimidated the judiciary to cow them to submission,” Obasanjo said.
“Today, another Abacha era is here. Security institutions are being misused to fight critics and opponents of Buhari and to derail our democracy.”
Source: MyNewsGh.com
