Former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has once again attacked the current president Muhammadu Buhari calling him a failure.
Obasanjo who is unhappy with the Buhari administration’s continued excuses for its inability to resolve some national issues said the government must stop giving excuses.
The former Nigerian leader who was speaking at Ogun State said “As I said, stop giving excuses; we met challenges. If there are no challenges, then we wouldn’t need you to come. You come in because you know there are challenges and then giving us an excuse that you have many challenges; that is why you haven’t achieved results.”
Obasanjo who in an earlier open letter to Buhari advised him against seeking re-election further said that “And then you still want to go. The first lesson I learnt in my military training is never reinforce failure. What we have now is failure. Never you reinforce failure. Let failure be failure.”
“The truth is this: When you have an ineffective and incompetent government, we are all victims. And don’t let anybody deceive you. Those of you who are in business, your business could have been better today if we have a competent and effective and performing government” Obasanjo further said.
Meanwhile the Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has reacted to Obasanjo’s comments in an interview with a local TV station Channels TV.
“President Muhammadu Buhari will not take issue with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. One, President Obasanjo was his superior in the military. President Buhari was made a minister under him during the military regime. So, President Buhari will never take issue with him,”Adesina said.
Adesina was further quoted as saying that “What President Obasanjo has just said is not different from what he said in his letter of January 23; and adequate response was given to that letter by the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. So, the response the minister gave to that letter suffices to whatever President Obasanjo has just said.”
Obasanjo had supported President Buhari in the 2015 elections against then incumbent Goodluck Jonathan but in recent times does not believe he must seek re-election.
Source: Africafeeds.com
