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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has replied to a statement credited to the presidency in a response to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Recalll that Obasanjo in a letter on Sunday titled ‘For the record: Points of concern and action,’ dissipated the Buhari government; a government he vigorously campaigned for to oust former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
The former president accused the Buhari government of returning Nigeria back to the era of military dictator, Sani Abacha who ruled the country ruthlessly without minding whose ox was gored.
The presidency, in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, the media aide to President Buhari said Obasanjo needed “a good doctor for good treatment and to say to him, “Get well soon.”
He added, “This language of his 16-page letter, likening President Buhari to General Sani Abacha, a man he dreaded and the one who jailed him under military laws is most unfitting from a former President of Nigeria.
“The claim that President Buhari has put in place rigging machinery is both outlandish and outrageous. We are unable to get the words to describe a 90-year old liar, except to say that by the publication of this tissue of lies against the President, he Obasanjo, not the President will fall from everyone’s esteem.”
In a similar vain, the Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, while featuring on Sunday Politics, a news and current affairs programme of Channels Television, said thousands of lives were lost under the administration of Obasanjo.
Responding to Obasanjo’s allegation that Buhari and the APC planned to rig the general elections, Adesina said, “Imagine that kind of allegation coming from somebody who told us in 2007 that the election would be a ‘do-or-die affair. If somebody had said the election would be a ‘do-or- die’ affair and it was ‘do- or- die’ affair and the beneficiary of that election came out to say that the election that brought him to power was marred; now for that person to allege that elections were not going to be free and fair, were they free and fair when he conducted his own?”
On the allegation that the security crisis in the country was deteriorating, Adesina said, “Under Obasanjo was when we had the Odi massacre; under him was when we had the Zaki Biam massacre; under him there were lots of clashes involving the OPC and other ethnic groups, there were Shari’ah riots under him, and thousands of lives were lost even under his administration.”
Responding to both reactions from the presidential spokespersons, the PDP in a statement said President Buhari’s aides, particularly Garba Shehu were sounding the obvious.
According to the statement signed by Akin Osuntokun, former President Obasanjo has never visited an hospital before within or outside the country while president Buhari has on countless times jettisoned his job to attend to undisclosed ailments at the expense of Nigerians.
Read full statement below:
Who needs to get well soon?
I’m not quite comfortable with giving the impression of being spiteful of President buhari’s health predicament but what do you do when those closest to him are the ones adverting attention to this dillema at every turn and juncture? It was the first lady, Aisha buhari, who first sounded the gong that her husband is incapacitated-to the extent of his presidency being seized by two unnamed malevolent usurpers?
Now, my friend, Garba Shehu has done it again by pointing to a non existent speck in Obasanjo’s eyes impervious of the log in the eyes of his principal. Isn’t it funny and ridiculous that against the immediate backdrop of a week-long display of physical and mental infirmity by President Buhari, the presidency can taunt the well-being of almost his exact opposite in mental and physical fitness?
How many months did Obasanjo spend in coma in a London hospital? Whose wife came out to reveal (what buhari has now openly confirmed) that unnamed hostage takers have capitalized on her husband’s spirit of infirmity to seize control of government? Who, in a fit of degenerative dementia, was identifying ogboru as the Presidential candidate of the APC?
Shouldn’t Nigerians discern what God is revealing to us concerning the fitness of President Buhari for office? I’m not a physician but I am medically conscious enough to know that dementia is progressive and irreversible. The implication of this medical fact is that buhari can only get worse. What then becomes the governance of Nigeria if buhari is re-elected
Let me leave you with the trenchant remorse of a respected voice, who like many other well meaning Nigerians aided in inflicting buhari on Nigeria four years ago, Sonala Olumhense
…”Buhari is clearly a sick man: he appeared unable to hear; or hearing, to comprehend; or comprehending, to offer decent, relevant answers. The man did not know when he took office, or often what he was doing or saying. Anyone who advocates Buhari as being capable of leading even a local government insults that council”
“In my estimation, we have reached the end of this road, irrespective of what the options are. Only a suicidal zealot places prescription glasses on a blind pilot and gives him control of an aircraft of 300 people, including his own family.”
Akin osuntokun
Spokesman
PDP Presidential campaign