Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has
questioned President Muhammadu Buhari’s competence to rule Nigeria
further, advising him to forget his second term bid.
He spoke on Tuesday in a special press statement titled, ‘The Way Out: A clarion call for coalition for Nigeria Movement.’
He said, “I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement
from active public service. President Buhari does not necessarily need
to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to
move on and move forward.”
Obasanjo said he supported Buhari in
2015 over the then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, adding that
his decision to go against Jonathan, who was in the same party with him,
was the right decision then.
He said, “Even the horse rider then,
with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today
has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire
his courage and forthrightness in this regard.”
Likening the present state of the nation
to lice-invested clothes, Obasanjo noted that the country’s fingernails
were stained with blood as it tried to kill the lice by pressing them
in-between two fingernails.
He said, “The lice of poor performance
in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism,
gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright
encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of
national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and
widening inequality – are very much with us today.
“With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of blood.”
