Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again criticised the administration
of President Muhammadu Buhari, maintaining that the government has failed.
The former president said thison Mondaywhen he received members of the
New Nigeria group at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
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, he said.
Obasanjo hadon Tuesday(January 23, 2018) issued a 13-page statement,
criticising President Buharis performance and calling for a new movement
to salvage the country from its challenges.
He had also warned the President against seeking re-election, alleging
that the present government has failed in one of the areas it pitched as
its key point of action when it assumed office the anti-corruption
fight.
Addressing members of the New Nigeria group at his residence today, the
former president rated the present administration as ineffective.
He said, The truth is this when you have an ineffective and incompetent
government, we are all victims and dont 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 also accused the President of having a poor understanding of
the dynamics of internal politics.
He warned Nigerians not to get carried away by the recent apology tendered
by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as well as the reforms of the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
This time, for us to make it, we need all hands on deck, Obasanjo
stated. I have publicly said and I mean it that as a party, neither PDP
nor APC can get us there; never mind about reforms and apology and all
that, he said.
Obasanjo further asked the APC to stop giving excuses that it has yet to
perform better because it met challenges, noting that the party was aware
of the challenges before it wrestled power from the PDP.
He then asked youths in the country to rise up to the challenge of
providing the much needed new generation of leadership for the development
of Nigerias socio-economic and political development.
The former president also asked the younger generation to take the bull by
the horn, if they must effectively confront power addicts in their
resolve to achieve the set goals and objectives of providing an
alternative in the political leadership of the country.
He stressed the need for a strong popular grassroots movement in
Nigeria, saying thats the way to bring about the change, sustainability
and stability the nation needs in its democracy
On the flip said, the former president said, You cannot take PDP as it
is, and APC as it is; but they are not all made of evil people, there are
good people. I said PDP is leprous hand, APC is leprous hand, but there
are some clean fingers in them.
So, lets take those clean fingers in them and graft the clean fingers in
our own. That is the way to go and if we go that way, we will get there.