The Presidency has chided ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo over his remarks about the President Bola Tinubu-led government.
Edum News recalls that Obasanjo had yesterday opined that Nigeria is a ‘failing state’ under President Tinubu’s watch.
The elderstatesman had also called for the immediate dismissal of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, and officials of the commission at all levels as part of a reform of the electoral process in Nigeria.
Reacting to this, the Special Adviser to the President on Public Communication and Orientation, Sunday Dare, lambasted former president, noting that he must apologize for the claims.
Speaking in a statement shared on his official X account on Tuesday, Dare described Obasanjo’s regime as the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria.
He further noted that Obasanjo lacked sincerity as Nigerians went through more hardship during his administration.
He said, “Former President Obasanjo is a man with a tremendous capacity for mischief and Nigerians know it. His journey along the path of hallucinations has never been in doubt. So is his descent into muddling facts, forgetting that he ran a presidency on record as the most corrupt. His recent diatribe at Yale University lacks sincerity. It is actually laughable that Obasanjo’s pretentiousness about fighting corruption is not cutting any ice in the eyes of the general public.
“We all know what happened under his watch and how, up till the present moment, there has been no explanation as to how he wasted a whopping $16 billion in generating megawatts of darkness across the nation. But that is not even the issue. Democracy suffered mortal wounds under his watch; only capped by his murderous rage for an ill-fated 3rd term. Successive administrations struggled to clean up the mess Obasanjo left behind, which President Tinubu is now making progress with.
“Obasanjo has lost any moral right to condemn any government. He should apologise to Nigerians for not laying the foundational infrastructure Nigeria needed to advance.”
