Chief Ayo Adebanjo, an elder statesman and chieftain of the Afenifere Pan African group, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to stop accommodating former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the presidential villa.
According to him, Obasanjo was so dictatorial during his tenure as president and he had had nothing new to offer in terms of advice and leadership, Daily Independent reports.
He criticised Obasanjo’s frequent visits to the president, blaming Buhari for accommodating him.
“On the frequent visits, I don’t blame Obasanjo. What about Buhari himself who is accommodating him, sending him on emissary as if there are no other capable hands in the country?
“The PDP ruled Nigeria for sixteen years. Out of that sixteen years, this is a man who failed in his eight years as president yet you are asking him to show you the roadmap, that he is the navigator? What roadmap will he show you, the roadmap that he couldn’t tour while he was in the office?
“What kind of man will leave the government and still wants to continue ruling the government? He was there as president for eight years. He was there during the time of late Umaru Yar’adua. He was there until former president Goodluck Jonathan refused to take orders from him. Put together, Obasanjo was in office for fifteen years out of the sixteen years that PDP ruled.”
He claimed that Obasanjo changed the Peoples Democratic Party’s constitution to suit him that whoever wants to be the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees must be a former president.
Adebanjo questioned the former governor’s leadership quality saying even his son described him as a very immoral person and he never denied it.
He added that the party wanted to impeach him under Ghali Na’aba, listing all his impeachable offences but it was swept under the carpet.
Adebanjo is not the first to describe Obasanjo’s tenure as dictatorial. Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state said the administration of President Buhari showed signs of military dictatorship just like that of Obasanjo, in which the rule of law was not respected.
Fayose added that “Obasanjo was always begging for relevance” at the presidential villa.
Meanwhile, Professor Wole Soyinka described Obasanjo as an overgrown child of circumstance, saying he had a responsibility to fundamentally respond to the lies of the former president.
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