Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has fired yet another salvo at President Muhammadu Buhari, saying “the mediocre performance of the latter cannot be described by anybody as superlative even by morons”.
Obasanjo said this while denying the reports that he has decided to endorse Buhari’s second term.
The elder statesman said he has made known his position about Buhari in a letter he wrote to the president in January.
In the letter, Obasanjo advised Buhari against seeking re-election, saying doing so would amount to overstretching the tolerance level of Nigerians.
In a statement issued on Obasanjo’s behalf by Kehinde Akinyemi, his media aide, the ex-president accused some “desperate elements” in Buhari’s camp of spreading falsehood against him.
Obasanjo said they are trying to create the impression that he is now in support of Buhari’s second term.
The statement said, “In the last 24 hours the internet has been bombarded with deliberate falsehoods aimed at hoodwinking the unsuspecting Nigerians to believe that Obasanjo has now supported Buhari for his second term because of some perceived Buhari’s ‘superlative’ performance in his encounter with Trump during his visit to the White House in Washington DC.
“In another breath, these blackmailers insinuated that Chief Obasanjo met with some Nigeria Labour Congress leaders in his house in Abuja on Workers’ Day. What a pathetic fallacy!”
It added that Obasanjo never met any Labour official on May 1 to make any supposed volte face to support Buhari. It state further that neither was the former president in Abuja on that date nor does he own a house in Abuja. “Any time he (Obasanjo) visits Abuja, he usually stays in a Guest House or hotel.
“For the record, Obasanjo has not and cannot endorse failure. His position remains as stated in his January 23rd, 2018 statement on the state of the nation.
“Obasanjo sympathises with the plight of those campaigners and supporters of Buhari. He doesn’t believe dishing out fake news that can only be believed by imbeciles will turn black into white.
“Nigerians know that Chief Obasanjo has only spoken the truth about widening poverty, alienation and social disunity and near disintegration of the country through Buhari’s incompetence.”
The statement added that Obasanjo will continue to exercise his right to free speech and no amount of hate speech will assuage Nigerians who are in need of a brand new leadership.
