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I WILL NEVER WORK WITH JONATHAN AS NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT AGAIN - OBASANJO

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never work with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan again as Nigeria’s president.

Premium Times reports that he made his position known on Tuesday, January 23, in a letter he sent to President Muhammadu Buhari about 2019 election and the state of the nation.

It was  gathered that Obasanjo, however, added that he could only work with Jonathan for the progress of the country.

Obasanjo's letter, which x-rayed Buhari’s performance in office, has since gone viral as many Nigerians continue to subject its contents to diverse interpretations.

The former president, who supported Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2015 presidential election, said his love for Nigeria and Jonathan’s lacklustre performance made him dump the PDP to support the APC.

 “All these led me to take the unusual step of going against my own political Party, PDP, in the last general election to support the opposite side.

“I saw that action as the best option for Nigeria. As it has been revealed in the last three years or so, that decision and the subsequent collective decision of Nigerians to vote for a change was the right decision for the nation.

 “For me, there was nothing personal, it was all in the best interest of Nigeria and, indeed, in the best interest of Africa and humanity at large.

 “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.

Speaking about Jonathan, Obasanjo maintained that the former President has a role to play in taking Nigeria to another height, but not in his capacity as president.

“He (Jonathan) has a role to play on the side line for the good of Nigeria, Africa and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again,” Obasanjo wrote.

He argued further that the situation that made Nigerians to vote massively to get Jonathan out of office is playing itself out again.

 “First , I thought I knew the point where President Buhari is weak and I spoke and wrote about it even before Nigerians voted for him and I also did vote for him because at that time it was a matter of “any option but Jonathan.


On Tuesday, the presidency said it could not immediately respond to Mr. Obasanjo’s letter. Similarly, the APC said it was still studying the content of the letter and would probably respond at the right time. 

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