Buhari’s govt bombs Obasanjo: You frittered away opportunity
Lai Mohammed: sends another bomb to Obasanjo
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has dismissed as incorrect former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s description of Nigeria as a failing state.
Mohammed admitted the nation faces challenges, but he said they are being confronted headlong by the Buhari administration.
”Nigeria today is not a failed state, but a nation that is courageously tackling its challenges and building a solid infrastructure that will serve as the basis for socio-economic development, a nation that is unrelenting in battling insecurity and working hard to ensure greatest prosperity for the greatest number of people,” Alhaji Mohammed said.
Mohammed’s response on behalf of government was issued in Abuja on Sunday.
He described as ironical that Obasanjo, who was part of a long stretch of rapacious and rudderless leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, is now turning round to point fingers at the Buhari administration.
“President Muhammadu Buhari’s assumption of office in 2015 prevented Nigeria from becoming a failed state”, Mohammed said.
“President Buhari came into office at a time that a swathe of the country’s territory was under occupation, a period when many Nigerian towns and cities, including the capital city of Abuja, were a playground for insurgents and a moment that the nation’s wealth had been looted dry, with little or nothing to show for the nation’s huge earnings, especially in the area of infrastructure .
You are dividing Nigeria – Presidency attacks Obasanjo
The presidency has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of dividing Nigeria.
An article signed by the Presidents’ Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu and made available to DAILY POST alleged that a recent statement by the former President was an attempt to divide the nation.
Garba Shehu, on Sunday, claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to promote nation-building and the unity of Nigeria and maintained that the difference between the two leaders is clear.
Nigerians have long stopped taking Obasanjo, Atiku seriously —APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday challenged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to provide details of how the $16billion earmarked for the development of the country’s power sector was spent under his administration.
The ruling party in a statement issued by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, also berated ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar for selling national assets to friends and cronies with attendant negative consequences on the country’s fortune.
Atiku supervised the country’s privatisation process during Obasanjo’s administration.
The ex-president had come under renewed attacks from APC over his latest comment on the state of the nation.
At a forum in Abuja last Thursday, Obasanjo lamented that Nigeria was becoming a failed state under President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership.
He also claimed that Nigeria was more divided under the current administration.
But in its reaction, the APC described Obasanjo, Atiku, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “political actors that midwifed and institutionalised the national rot, corruption, impunity, and eroding of the country’s value systems.”
The party insisted that such characters could not chart the way forward for the country.
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