Ex president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo is in the news for a lengthy letter he wrote to the current president of the country, Muhammadu Buhari. According to him, Buhari has failed and
should not run for a second term. The letter is even being sold on hard copy format on the busy streets of Lagos. He said this on Tuesday in a special press statement titled, ‘The Way Out: A
clarion call for coalition for Nigeria Movement.’ The former President warned President Buhari not to test the patience of Nigerians, advising him to consider a deserved rest after the completion of his first term. Below are excerpts from the letter.
“Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire
his courage and forthrightness in this regard,”. “He has a role to play on the sideline for the good of Nigeria, Africa, and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing
such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again.” “The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic
management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us
today,” “With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of ‘blood’,”OBJ thanked President Buhari for the way he handled the Boko Haram crisis but pointed out that he failed to be efficient in other areas. He admitted knowing that Buhari was weak in handling the economy, he went ahead and voted for him because at the time “it
was a matter of ‘any option but Jonathan’” and because he thought Mr Buhari would appoint qualified Nigerians to help out in that area. He slammed President Buhari for turning a blind eye to corruption within his government saying it amounted to condonation and cover-up saying whoever is “going to justice must
be with clean hands.” He also berated Mr Buhari for allowing the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to go “sour” and messy saying the endorsement of the President by some governors to seek re-election barely 24 hours after 73 people who were killed by herdsmen in Benue State were given mass burial was “a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness.”
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