‘I’ll Teach You A Lesson You Will Never Forget’ — Buhari Replies Obasanjo

‘I’ll teach you a lesson you will never forget’ — Buhari replies Obasanjo
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President
Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to teach ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo “and
his co-travellers” a political lesson they will never forget.

In
a statement which Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, issued on his
behalf, Buhari accused the former president of being hostile to leaders
he has no control over.

He described him as someone who lacks the moral standing to criticise his administration.

The statement was issued in response to the latest criticism of Obasanjo.

The elder statesman had alleged that Buhari was taking the country down the path of Sani Abacha, former military dictator.

Denying the allegation, Shehu said Obasanjo needed to visit his doctor for treatment.

“The
sixteen-page letter the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,
wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari and released this afternoon is the
last push by desperate politicians who can’t handle the President
politically and have resorted to subterfuge,” the statement read.

“Our
first message to the former President is that he needs a good doctor
for good treatment and to say to him, ‘Get well soon’.”

“As
repeatedly said of him, since Chief Obasanjo left office in 1979, he
never let every succeeding leader of the country function freely, and
this included the one he personally handpicked against all known rules
drawn up by the party that put him in the office of the President. But
Chief Obasanjo is jealous because President Buhari has more esteem than
him and the sooner he learns to respect him the better.

“It is a
notorious fact that in dealing with any leader that he failed to
control, he resorted to these puerile attacks. As the grand patron, more
correctly the grandfather of corruption as described by the National
Assembly, Chief Obasanjo released today’s letter purely for the reason
of rescuing his thriving corruption establishment.

The elections
starting in February will be free and fair as promised the nation and
the international community by President Buhari.

“What Chief
Obasanjo and his co-travelers in the PDP should expect is that from the
outcome, we will teach them a political lesson that they will never
forget. This margin will be much bigger than we had in 2015.”

He
also denied the allegations of Obasanjo that the Buhari administration
had started recruiting the officials of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) who would be used to rig the exercise.

“Claims
that President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have
embarked on the president’s “self- succession project, by recruiting
collation officers who are already awarding results based on their
projects to actualise the perpetuation agenda, in which the people will
not matter and the votes will not count” is not only utterly false, but a
copious note from the book on the failed third term agenda of President
Obasanjo,” the statement read.

“As for his attacks of the
administration’s records in fighting corruption, what the former
President said is no more than evidence that President Buhari’s war
against corruption is succeeding. They thought it is all a joke.

“A
leader who took USD 16 billion “upfront” to supply electric power yet
failed to add a single megawatt to the national grid and to date, there
is no trace of the money is jittery that he will be called to account.
He is a coward.

“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.”

Source:- Thecableng