Former President, Olusegun
Obasanjo, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of shielding corrupt members
of his government.
Obasanjo made this claims in a
13-page statement released on Tuesday.
In a special press statement
entitled, “The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement”, the
former president said whoever is “going to justice must be with clean hands.”
Obasanjo wrote: “But there are
three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most
of us thought we knew about him. 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?
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.
“The third is 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.”
Obasanjo also berated Buhari for
allowing the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to go “sour” and messy,
saying the endorsement of the President by some Governors to seek re-election
barely 24 hours after 73 people who were killed by herdsmen in Benue State were
given mass burial, was “a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness.”
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