A media consultant, Malam
Mohammed Garba, on Thursday, challenged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to a
televise debate over demand for President Muhammadu Buhari not to contest the
2019 presidential election.
Garba, the Chief Executive
Officer of Right Contact Services Nigerian Ltd., said in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna, that the demand contained in a letter
to the president by Obasanjo negates all democratic tenets.
According to him, no Nigerian, no
matter how highly placed, has the constitutional right to deny any qualified
citizen the right to run in an election.
He challenged the former
president to provide “cogent reasons enshrined in the Constitution that could
stop a sitting president or anybody from contesting an election in Nigeria.”
Garba said he would sponsor the
debate in any media that Obasanjo chooses, “so that Nigerians can ask him what
he is really up to.
“It is possible he is being
instigated by foreign powers or local selfish politicians who hate to see
Nigeria progressing.
“I am of the opinion that
Obasanjo is being used to usher certain individuals into the presidency in 2019
to facilitate the exploitation of the country’s wealth.
“I Mohammed Garba, a media expert
is, therefore, challenging former President Olusagun Obasanjo to a debate on
all the things he has said about President Buhari.
“If his action is for the good of
the public let him explain and provide us an alternative more credible
candidate for 2019.”
Garba stressed that as an elder
statesman, what was expected of Obasanjo was to support Buhari to do better and
not judge and condemn him.
According to him, President
Buhari, inherited a problematic polity destroyed by previous administrations
that he Obasanjo was a contributor.
“As far as most Nigerians are
concerned, Buhari is doing a great job, considering the bastardised economy and
failing Nigerian security apparatus that he inherited.
“Today the economy is picking up,
he has revamped the image of Nigeria in the international community and for the
first time in the history of Nigeria, electricity generation has hit 7,000
megawatts.
“If we recall, the Obasanjo
administration had squandered about N6 trillion to generate electricity, with
nothing to show for it.”
He emphasised that Obasanjo’s
assessment of Buhari performance was completely erroneous.
Garba also faulted the former
president for ignoring under-performing Governors, and the National Assembly
that had consistently failed to pass national budgets on time.
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