The All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, including a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday at the presidential rally in Maiduguri, took turns to lambast ex President Olusegun Obasanjo over his latest attack on President Muhammadu Buhari.
The ex president, Obasanjo, had in a 16-page statement on Sunday, likened Buhari to the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha.
But at the APC rally, Tinubu described him (Obasanjo) as an expired leader, who should not be trusted, adding that Obasanjo’s government was notorious for election rigging.
He added that the ex-president should have retired to his farm and be mute.
He said, “It is unfortunate that expired leaders like Olusegun Obasanjo are ranting and lying. Don’t trust him. We are sweeping all the cobwebs of corruption away with broom out of Nigeria. Ota farm should be enough a retirement place for Obasanjo to keep quiet.
“Who among Nigerians will recall how the PDP government under Obasanjo was notorious for rigging elections? No government has upheld the tenets of democracy like the government of President Buhari. We asked for the recognition of June 12 from Obasanjo, he refused, but President Buhari as an honest man with integrity heard our cry and recognised June 12.
“Even if the forum of association of angry old men refuses to vote for Buhari, we will give him 95 per cent votes.”
On the other hand APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, also lambasted Obasanjo, stating that the ex-President was watching when the PDP government was stealing funds meant for countering Boko Haram.
He said, “The people writing epistle now watched how money meant for security was appropriated by not only the PDP but the generals. Under their watch, over 20 local government areas of Borno State were taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists before the coming of President Buhari.
“Today, no matter what they want to say, there is no local government where Boko Haram is hoisting its flag. All the 27 local government areas of Borno have been liberated by the APC government.”
The Director-General of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi also spoke.
Amaechi recalled that when he was a governor in Rivers State, the Obasanjo’s government withdrew his security detail.
He stated, “Sometime in 2006, I was driven out of this country by a PDP-led Federal Government. I went into exile in Ghana. I was in Ghana for 10 months. I was expelled from the party, the PDP until I became a governor. And when I became a governor, I told them I did not want to belong to the PDP again. They met me and apologised and readmitted me into the PDP.”
He however urged Nigerians to compare the administration of the PDP with the current government of Buhari and decide which was closer to Abacha’s government.
“I was a governor in 2013, 2014, 2015. I had no security. A PDP-led government had chased my CSO and my ADC away. My ADC ran to London, my CSO was put in an underground cell. A major who was in my convoy was also put in an underground cell. I was left without security.”
