The presidency has described former president, Olusegun Obasanjo as a ‘morally squalid’ person whose pastime is attacking Nigerian leaders out of frustration.
It said this in a statement titled “Morally Squalid Obasanjo attacks leaders out of frustration” on Monday, January 2, 2023, by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari
Shehu said that the latest attack on Buhari by Obasanjo in his letter is from a place of frustration that the former had recorded an unprecedented record in national development.
He stressed that Buhari is ahead of Obasanjo, whose “hallucinations tell him that he is the best ever to lead Nigeria.”
According to Shehu, Obasanjo is infamous for four things among which is his alleged jealousy of Buhari and other Nigerian leaders.
Shehu further said Obasanjo’s administration between 1999 and 2007 represented “the dark days of Nigeria’s democracy due to a slew of assaults on the constitution.
He also claimed that Obasanjo “destabilized internal democracy by orchestrating impeachment after impeachment of governors who were not compliant with his highly imperial administration.
“The former president deployed federal machinery to remove governors Joshua Dariye, Rashidi Ladoja, Peter Obi, Chris Ngige and Ayo Fayose from office. They were the then governors of Plateau, Oyo, Anambra, Anambra and Ekiti, respectively, unjustly removed using the police and secret service under his control”, Garba said.