Chidi Samuel|
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday said that former president Olusegun Obasanjo is haunted by his actions while in office, especially with regards to the conduct of elections.
The ruling party also said Obasanjo “would realise that he is not God” after the presidential election.
The ruling party’s spokesman, Lanre Issa-Onilu stated this in a statement in response to allegations by Obasanjo that the APC-led federal government had concluded plans with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the elections.
Onilu said, “For eight years of Obasanjo in office, all the elections he held, infact, government policies were determined by whatever mood he found himself.”
“All the institutions of government were brought under his wings and what he did for those eight years is what is haunting him.
“He cannot imagine that a government will allow INEC the statuary independence that it has. We have had 93 elections or more since APC came to power, and you can be sure that all those elections were conducted without government interference.
“We can understand where the former president is coming from, his past is haunting him, he imagines that perhaps the way he did it is the same way we will do it.”
Onilu also advised Obasanjo to adjust himself to the reality of an imminent defeat.
“He has carried himself about as the dispenser of our destiny and God is showing him clearly that he has just only been lucky,” he said.
“And the favour that God has done to him, he now considers as the things that are coming from him.
“I think it is time for him to smell the coffin, this election will come and it will be free and fair, APC does not have any reason to rig it.”
On the presidential debate, the APC spokesman noted that the debate