Former President, Olusegun
Obasanjo has told President Muhammadu Buhari not to stand for re-election next
year, in a blistering and excoriating 13-page statement released on Tuesday
entitled, “The Watch Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement”
Obasanjo made it clear that Buhari has performed far below expectation and
should honourably “dismount from the horse” to join the league of the country’s
former leaders whose “experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be
deployed on the sideline for the good of the country.”
He wrote: “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’,” he added.
Obasanjo admitted that he is
disappointed by Buhari, whom he supported during the 2015 election over
Goodluck Jonathan and also explained why he stood against the incumbent three
years ago.
“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.
“He 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 said.
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