By our reporter| The presidency on Sunday replied former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comments on the Buhari administration, calling him a “divider in chief”.
It comes after Obasanjo delivered a paper titled “Moving Nigeria away from tipping over” in which he said the country was drifting into a “failed and divided” state under Buhari.
But responding to Obasanjo on Sunday, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, described the utterances as “unfair attacks on President Buhari and his administration”.
Shehu said the statement of former President was an attempt to divide the nation while President Buhari continues to promote nation building and the unity of Nigeria.
He said the recent speech in which President Buhari advised West African Presidents against tenure elongation beyond constitutional limits had been consistent with his long held views on the need to adhere to the rule of law.
The presidential aide expressed hope that Chief Obasanjo would once again sheathe the sword and rest what he called “the pretentiousness about the Messiah that has (mis)led him to pronounce often wrongly, as he disastrously did in the 2019 elections, about the life and death of Nigerian governments.”
He also advised the former President to get involved with problems solving in accordance with his mantra as a statesman instead of helping “the mushrooming of a poisonous atmosphere of ethnic and religious nationalism.”
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