Group to OBJ: You’re Nigeria’s number one enemy

A group, The Coalition for Change in Nigeria, has carpeted former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent pronouncements on the state of the nation.
According to the group, it is sad that Obasanjo, who is supposed to act as elder statesman, has turned himself to the “number one enemy of Nigeria.” The group’s Secretary General, Comrade Jonathan Ogwuche, declared this yesterday in Abuja at a press conference, wondering “why Obasanjo, who reportedly ran the country as an imperial emperor, is now vocal against the current government.” Obasanjo had last week claimed that he sacrificed for the nation by “fighting, shedding blood to defend the country during the Civil War and even been sent to jail over a coup allegation” he was innocent of.
Ogwuche said: “You must have, like other well-meaning Nigerians, noted the blatant incursion into day-to-day governance in Nigeria by a former president, Dr.
Olusegun Obasanjo.
The latest in his serial meddlesomeness was when he received a former governor of Sokoto state, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, at his Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
He has similarly made other inappropriate interventions that actively placed him in the arena of partisan politics.
“On the surface, there is nothing wrong with Dr. Obasanjo or any vampire that has wrecked this country making interventions, especially when such are capable of improving the lot of the nation and also considering that they have rights as citizens to take part in governance.” Continuing, he said: “Here was a man that ran the country as an imperial emperor.
He warned his then vice president that it was a presidency and not a co-presidency, which was his own crude reminder that he was not amenable to entertaining inputs from his then deputy.
It was this attitude of his that created the mindset that a deputy is a spare tire, a situation that set the foundation for the many acrimonious relationships between governors and their deputies across many states and one that has continued to plague the nation till now.” It added: “Since discovering that no one wants his tainted goods, he has started hobnobbing with the same PDP he claimed to have resigned from after his coalition and the political party it metamorphosed into were consigned into irrelevance by discerning Nigerians.
“Never again shall we allow Obasanjo to run the affairs of Nigeria, whether directly or through proxies, which is why we commend President Buhari for resisting his interference in the governance of Nigeria.
Mr. President should continue keeping the old rogue at arm’s length and away from messing with the running of the country.”