OBASANJO'S STINKER TO BUHARI HAD A FEW NOTABLE QUOTES…Here Are 12 Things We Learnt From Ex-president's Letter
We always thought former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President
Muhammadu Buhari were buddies until, well, the afternoon of January 23, when this stinker of a memo found
its way into our mail box.
We picked 12 things from Baba Iyabo’s letter to
Buhari…
1.Obasanjo
says Buhari’s government has performed poorly. There were harsh words from the
beginning of this letter, for the Buhari
administration. “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…”, Obasanjo
wrote.
2. Buhari’s knowledge of internal politics is really poor, according to Obasanjo
Here
are Obasanjo’s words: “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”.
3.
Obasanjo doesn’t care if anyone attacks him for turning against Buhari. “I know that praise-singers and hired
attackers may be raised up against me for verbal or even physical attack but if
I can withstand undeserved imprisonment and was ready to shed my blood by
standing for Nigeria, I will consider no sacrifice too great to make for the
good of Nigeria at any time”, he wrote.
4. Buhari’s poor knowledge of the economy was glaring from the start, says Obasanjo
“No human leader is expected to be personally strong or
self-sufficient in all aspects of governance. I knew President Buhari before he
became President and said that he is weak in the knowledge and understanding of
the economy but I thought that he could make use of good Nigerians in that area
that could help. "Although, I know that you cannot give what you don’t
have and that economy does not obey military order”.
5.
There was some pass mark for Buhari on fighting insurgency and waging a war
against corruption. “I
thought President Buhari would fight corruption and insurgency and he must be
given some credit for his achievement so far in these two areas although it is
not yet uhuru!”
Some credit at long last, yeah?
6.
Obasanjo tears into Buhari over the herdsmen crises. “The herdsmen/crop farmers issue is being
wittingly or unwittingly allowed to turn sour and messy. It is no credit to the
Federal Government that the herdsmen
rampage continues with
careless abandon and without finding an effective solution to it.
“And it is a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness that
some Governors, a day after 73 victims were being buried in a mass grave in
Benue State without condolence, were jubilantly endorsing President Buhari for
a second term! The timing was most unfortunate”.
7.
Obasanjo says Buhari is sectional and nepotistic. If you thought Buhari only
favours persons from his own geopolitical region of the country when it comes
to appointments, you aren’t alone.
“One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability
to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has
grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the
nation.
“It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on
the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like
that of Maina: collusion, condonation,
ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and
friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent
disciplinary action?”
8.
Obasanjo says Buhari has divided Nigeria. “How
many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare
of the media and the public? The second is his poor understanding of the
dynamics of internal politics.
“This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more
divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has
effect on general national security”.
9.
Obasanjo wants Buhari to stop blaming the Jonathan administration. "…Passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of
the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past
governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one’s own
responsibility.
Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our
politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today.
“If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in.
He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game”.
10.
Obasanjo tells Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. If you've been under
some rock, the president’s re-election campaign ship has since set sail.
Obasanjo isn’t amused though.
Here’s
his take, since you asked:
“We all thanked God for President Buhari for coming back
reasonably hale and hearty and progressing well in his recovery. But whatever
may be the state of President Buhari’s health today, he should neither
over-push his luck nor over-tax the patience and tolerance of Nigerians for
him, no matter what his selfserving, so-called advisers, who would claim that
they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no
Nigeria say.
"President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount
from the horse.
“He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup
and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders
whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the
sideline for the good of the country.
“His place in history is already assured. Without impaired health
and strain of age, running the affairs of Nigeria is a 25/7 affair, not 24/7. I
only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time
and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement
from active public service”.
11.
Obasanjo shades Wike
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, may not have
been mentioned in Obasanjo's letter, but this paragraph had his name written
all over it.
"The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to
lovers of Nigeria. To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of
PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the
party, he must dictate the tune all the way and this is indeed fraught with
danger".
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