Obasanjo: Don’t Instigate Press War – Fani-Kayode Warns Presidency

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Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Thursday warned the
presidency not to instigate a press war, saying taking former
president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, to the cleaners over his political
views could attract a comprehensive retaliation from Obasanjo’s camp.

Fani-Kayode,
who served under Obasanjo, said the presidency ought to treat the
former president with absolute respect, otherwise his associates would
have to respond and that might not augur well for the image of President
Muhammadu Buhari.

The presidency rapped the former president
over his searing criticism of the Buhari administration, saying it no
longer had respect for Obasanjo because he had become inconsistent.

Buhari’s
media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, had told State House Correspondent that
the administration would no longer take Obasanjo seriously because he
had changed his mind severally on the matter of the next president of
Nigeria, saying the former president was confused.

But responding Thursday, Fani-Kayode said the presidency was precipitating a messy media war and warned it to pull back.

He
gave a hint of what was in the offing, “Actually, if anybody is
confused, it is President Buhari, who his own wife says is not in
control of the government entrusted to his care.”

“One minute he
is running the affairs of the country, and the next minute, according to
his wife, two powerful, faceless and unelected men have hijacked the
government, have taken control and have pushed him aside.”

Fani-Kayode
said as a former special assistant on Public Affairs to Obasanjo
between 2003 and 2006, there was very little that he did not know about
him or his tenure, adding that the former president deserved to be
treated with respect.

According to him, Obasanjo remains the
father of the nation and one of the most productive and successful
presidents in the history of Nigeria.

He said, “I read with
dismay the comments from the presidency about former President Obasanjo.
I want to serve them a note of warning. They should leave Obasanjo
alone and keep him out of their sights if they do not want a really
messy press war.

“When they needed him in 2015, they begged him
to be their navigator and they bowed before him and kissed his feet.
They even called him their navigator but now they say he is confused and
not to be taken seriously simply because he has seen through them and
dumped them.

“It is not their fault. They reaped where they did
not sow and if not for the likes of the Obasanjo that they are now
insulting they would never have smelt power in 2015.”

He said the
record of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government in
public office stinks as they have failed woefully.

Fani-Kayode
further stressed, “Some of us knew it would come to this because we saw
through them even then and we knew that they are nothing but a bunch of
self-seeking opportunists and ingrates that are not fit to hold power
let alone steer the affairs of a great nation like Nigeria.

“Not one of them or their principal is fit to lick Obasanjo’s shoes let alone talk about him that way.
“Respect
begets respect. Leave Obasanjo out of your mess and face your election
campaign or else we will take the kid gloves off and teach you the
lesson of your lives.”

Presidential spokesperson, Shehu, had told
reporters that whoever Obasanjo chose to support in the 2019 elections
was irrelevant, as the former president had publicly changed his mind on
the matter several times over the past few months.

He said,
“Former President Obasanjo denounces one person today and supports that
same person the next day. When it pleases him, he brings God into the
matter and uses that as his excuse for whatever position he has chosen.

“We
have learnt not to take his utterances seriously anymore. We know that
the slightest wind can make him change his mind again. After all, this
is the same man who publicly tore his party registration card barely
four years ago, and he now claims to be backing the same party.”

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