Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared his
support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
Obasanjo, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic
Party, made his opinion known during an interview with the Financial Times at
the launch of his controversial autobiography titled, ‘My Watch’, in Nairobi,
Kenya.
He said, “The circumstances he (Buhari) will be working
under if he wins the elections are different from the one he worked under before,
where he was both the executive and the legislature – he knows that. He is
smart enough. He is educated enough. He’s experienced enough. Why shouldn’t I
support him?”
Obasanjo said he was confident that Buhari would be able
to effectively tackle corruption, insecurity and would restore the morale of
the military which was needed in the fight against terrorism.
He said, “It is a question of leadership – political and
military. I think you need to ask Jonathan how he let the army go to this
extent. Many things went wrong: recruitment went wrong; training went wrong;
morale went down; motivation was not there; corruption was deeply ingrained; and
welfare was bad.”
Obasanjo added that he was saddened by the rate at which
the nation’s resources were dwindling, adding that when he left office, Nigeria
had $45bn in its reserve but the resources had been depleted by more than half
despite the increase in oil prices.
Reacting to the postponement of the elections by the
Independent National Electoral Commission for security reasons and a better
distribution of Permanent Voter Cards, Obasanjo said he hoped the Federal
Government was being truthful.
“I sincerely hope that the President is not going for
broke and saying ‘look dammit, it’s either I have it or nobody has it’. I hope
that we will not have a coup. I hope we can avoid it,” he said. - PUNCH.
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