He attributes his criticism to “frustration” and accuses him of “destabilizing democracy” during his tenure between 1999 and 2007
3 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Nigerian Presidency has harshly charged former president Olusegun Obasanjo for his support for the opposition Peter Obi ahead of the general elections to be held in February
Obsanjo, who held the position between 1999 and 2007, recently stated 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 the current president. , Muhammadu Buhari.
In response, the spokesman for the Nigerian Presidency, Garba Shehu, has published a series of messages on the social network Twitter in which he calls Obasanjo “morally scrawny” and attributes his criticism to his “frustration”.
“Former President Obasanjo is well known to all and it is not necessary 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 all fields of national development and that is a cardinal sin for Obasanjo, whose hallucinations tell him that he is the best Nigeria has ever led and there will never be another like him,” he said.
He also noted that “Buhari has received applause for trying to do what the Constitution says a leader must do, serve one or two terms, maximum, and leave.” “After having tried to extend his term and failed, Obasanjo’s imaginative mind must tell him that it is he who is being attacked,” he argued.
“However, it is not on Buhari’s radar because experience has shown, especially of late in West Africa, where there have been at least three successful coups and several attempted coups, that a third term or extended term is a recipe for political instability”, he noted.
Shehu has also stressed that “as president, Obasanjo destabilized internal democracy by orchestrating a series of political trials against governors who did not comply with his highly imperial administration” and added that Obasanjo’s term “represented the dark days of Nigerian democracy for a series of assaults against the Constitution”.
“For his part, a few weeks ago in Washington, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, described Buhari during a meeting with African heads of state and government as a defender of democracy and an example for the leaders of the states Africans,” he pointed out.
For this reason, he has insisted that the former president “has adopted a vengeful stance” and has said that “hell for Obasanjo is that any president who comes after him is not his puppet to do what he wants in all matters and at all times” . “He keeps attacking out of frustration”, he has riveted.
Obi, the Labor Party (LP) candidate, is listed as one of the main favorites ahead of the February elections along with Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from the government’s All Progressives Congress (APC), and Abubakar Atiku, from the opposition People’s Democratic Party. (PDP).