Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been accused by the
Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) of plotting the ouster of President Muhammadu
Buhari.
In a statement on Sunday, the organisation said the sinister
plot was being hatched by “a former civilian president” and “a gang of
“conspirators”.
It said the conspirators under the guise of ’eminent
persons’ planned to instigate an uprising to force the resignation of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Although the organisation avoided making a pointed reference
to Obasanjo, it was unmistakable it had Obasanjo in mind.
Obasanjo, one of the two civilian presidents alive, is the
only one capable of assembling ’eminent persons’ to proclaim on the Buhari
presidency.
In 2018, Obasanjo, a Buhari critic had tried to cobble a
political front to defeat Buhari’s re-election. But the plan failed.
BMO warned the former president and his co-travellers to
quickly perish the thought and save the country from avoidable constitutional
crisis and civil unrest.
In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and
Secretary Cassidy Madueke, the pro-Buhari group lampooned the conspirators for
their recourse to unconstitutional means to force the resignation of President
Buhari, describing the move as reckless and anti-Nigeria.
“Our highly reliable security sources have informed us of
the determination of the former President to go ahead with a plan to cause
disaffection in the country through a planned conference of so-called eminent
Nigerians.
“While the Conference ostensibly aims to review the state of
the nation, we can authoritatively confirm that it is actually a premeditated
plan to create confusion in the polity by calling President Buhari to resign
after a supposed vote of no confidence.
“Our Security sources said the worries over this latest move
by the former leader is not so much about the illegality of the planned
declaration but the anarchical mindset behind it, especially given the growing
resurgence of military putsch in the West African sub-region. Any appearance of
national confusion, even if scripted without any basis, could fuel unreasoned
confusion.
“We, therefore, call on Nigerians to be wary of manoeuvres
by people who are desperate to erode the foundation of our hard-fought
democracy to further the agenda of a desperate, bumptious and self-serving group
of elites besotted with power to the point that they are ready to throw the
country into a contrived pandemonium to remain relevant”.
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