A former minister of state for
Education, Professor Jerry Agada has described the public spat between former
president Olusegun Obasanjo and President Muhammadu Buhari as a shame to the
country’s democracy.
Agada, while speaking to newsmen
in Makurdi on Sunday, warned that the face-off if not checked by well-meaning
Nigerians is capable of dragging the country into the mud.
The former president had in a
statement on Friday raised the alarm that the Buhari-led Government was trying
to frame him up so as to be prosecuted and detained.
In a swift reaction, the minister
of Information, Lai Mohammed said the Buhari administration will not be
distracted by “frivolous allegations from any quarter, especially those
cleverly choreographed to divert attention from a widely-acclaimed presidential
proclamation and to shore up support for a waning and egotistical cause.”
Reacting to the development,
Agada said the allegation by Obasanjo accusing Buhari administration of
plotting to incriminate him was weighty and should be critically investigated
by the appropriate authorities.
He, however, said Obasanjo’s
claim had brought a shame to Nigeria internationally, alluding that it is not
right for a former president to raise such claims against a sitting President
in a nation still nursing democracy to a stand.
“Well, as a former president and
Military Head of State, Obasanjo knows his onions and he can get any desirable
and undesirable information from whatever quarters. So, I am not in the
position to affirm that what he said was true or false, but what am saying is
that, the mere fact that he made the claim against the Nigeria state is very
shameful and disgraceful.
“He has security to himself and
knows what is happening around him, he must have sensed danger somewhere and
that’s why he raised the alarm. But if Obasanjo knows that what he is saying is
the truth, depending on his sources, then, it is unfortunate.
“Something like that should not
happen because a former head of state or president should be given maximum
regard and respect.
“On the other hand, if the former
president’s claim is not true, he should know that he is disgracing Nigeria
before the international community,” he said.
Agada added that the face-off
between the two leaders is very shameful and a slap on Nigeria’s democracy.
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