The women group at a rally in
Lagos, observed that had Obasanjo and his party laid the right foundation for
Nigeria, the country would have passed the stage where the present government
had to begin.
The placard-carrying women
stormed the Freedom Park at Ojota, Lagos and specifically asked former
President Olusegun Obasanjo to keep quiet and allow Nigeria work.
The placards read: ‘We are for
progress and development under President Buhari’, ‘Time for Obj to keep quiet
and allow Nigeria Work’, among others.
The group’s executive director,
Josephine Okpara said the rally was “to remind us all that we should not allow
those who once tried to destroy the country to succeed.”
Okpara said: “We are for progress
and development under President Buhari. It is something we want to continue.
But unfortunately, those that have truncated the fortunes of the country want
to be allowed to keep sabotaging the country.
“Most tragically but
unsurprisingly, a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, is the arrowhead of this
misguided group. He has used the pedestal of the esteemed office he once
occupied as a platform to launch attacks on a government that has succeeded in
delivering to Nigerians what he failed to deliver in the eight years he led the
country and things his party was not been able to deliver in the sixteen years
it held Nigeria hostage.
“Had Obasanjo and his party laid
the right foundation for Nigeria, the country would by now be past the stage
where the present government has to begin building the nation afresh from the
ground up.
“Obasanjo’s failure to build
systems and institutions with preference for being the strong man has done
untold damage to the psyche of the nation. The present administration is
constrained to begin rebuilding critical national institutions while
reintroducing systems that should have been in place long before it came into
office.
“We do not want to venture into
the parlous state of critical national infrastructure that are only now being
built. Yet, in those eight and sixteen years, the country was bled dry, verging
on the point of death while the enemies of the land pretended to be making
giant strides.”
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