You can’t speak for Nigerians, APC stalwart tells OBJ

A member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Nasiru Danu, has asked Nigerians to continue to support President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the statements credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the president re-election bid were “his personal opinion.
” According to Danu, the ex-president cannot speak for Nigerians.
He stated this at an interactive session with journalists at the national secretariat of the party yesterday in Abuja, stressing that Obasanjo’s assertions on the performance of President Buhari were “more political than anything else.
” “The truthis that everybody can have his opinion on an issue, but to me this is a successful administration.
Buhari never promised to be a miracle worker.
In three years, the success of this administration in the economy and security are obvious.
“There is no nation that can progress or have meaningful development with the past levels of corruption.
When somebody says he is a failure, failure in what? Are we talking about the railways connecting the country; the Port HarcourtMaiduguri or Lagos-Kano rail line? The Mambilla project, the second Niger Bridge, etc.
“In security, compared to what we had before, there are improvements.
Before Buhari, we were having attacks even in Abuja not Maiduguri; but you can see the successes clearly.
This is an election year.
People are entitled to their own opinions.
Obasanjo is an elder statesman and he is entitled to his own opinion.
That is not the opinion of Nigerians,” he said.
Obasanjo had at the weekend described the Buhari administration as “an irredeemable failure,” asking Nigerians to “not re-inforce failure in the 2019 general elections.
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