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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was criticized for his letter in which he rebuked President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration, claiming that the president was preparing to rig the 2019 ballot.
In his response to the letter Tuesday, the former governor of Lagos and co-chairman of the Progressive Congress presidential campaigns, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said that Mr. Obasanjo was planning to misbehave the PCA that he would commit if he was still in power.
"Yet, the Obasanjo pathways are not those of the APC. And this difference is synonymous with improvement for Nigeria, "said Tinubu in a very worded letter.
Asiwaju described the former president as an unparalleled election official.
"There is no election under the supervision of Obasanjo or in which he participated and which did not involve cheating on his part. Even the late President Umaru Musa Yar, Adua, admitted to having benefited from an imperfect election, organized by none other than the vehement plaintiff today, he said.
Tinubu's response, signed personally by him, entitled "CHEF OBASANJO – IN WAR AGAINST HIS OWN ACTS", reads as follows: "Former President Obasanjo has a lot to offer to many people, but he is everything for him. His recent contribution to our political speech, in which he alleges plots to direct the upcoming elections, shows that he enjoys an extremely failing memory, that he is purely unscrupulous or that he He has the most vicious sense of humor, maybe all three are facets of his makeup and were also on display in his latest prosaic display.
"The crux of his long tirade was the allegation that INEC was about to prepare the election results. Chief Obasanjo should not get up and waste good ink for nothing. This election will be a free and open exercise of the right of the people to choose their leaders. Obasanjo makes strong claims against this right but offers no corroborating evidence. it only has tons of words. Indeed, Obasanjo projects on the APC the fault that he would commit if he was still in power. Yet, the Obasanjo pathways are not those of the APC. And this difference has meant the best for Nigeria.
"In addition, Chief Obasanjo should be the last to complain about electoral fraud. His administration was an irreproachable miscarriage of justice and one of the best aspirations of the Nigerian people. We all know that he was not elected in 1999. He was handed Nigeria on a silver platter; perhaps because Nigeria has been so easily given that he has put himself to treat the nation as if it 's been an unimportant thing; he thought it was a cheap gift and not a privilege to govern this nation.
"This man should have positioned himself to be the father of the nation. All the goodwill that could be granted to a political figure was conferred on him. The global economy was such that it fueled our growth. Everyone wanted Nigeria to succeed after emerging from years of harmful military rule. Despite the flawed exercise that made him president, we all bit our tongues in the hope that he would say and do the right things that would move Nigeria forward.
"Instead of being a unifying figure as commander-in-chief, he has been demoted to become a connivot of discord and vindictive. There was no table where he was approaching who did not upset him and knocked him down. There was no one who went into his company for a period of time with which he had not quarreled if he expressed a thought contrary to one of his own.
"He tried to convert our young democracy into a one-party state. His PDP has boasted of being able to govern for 60 uninterrupted years. They never boasted that they would govern us well even one year out of sixty. It could have put the economy on the path of sustainable growth and shared prosperity through diversification, industrialization and the creation of a social safety net for the people. poor. Instead, he entrusted the economy to a select group of pals, transforming what should be a modern economy into a version of the huge trading companies that dominated the 17th and 18th centuries. The Transcorp conglomerate was supposed to be a step backward for monopolistic companies such as the East Indian Company, in which a select handful would control the strategic heights of the national economy.
"We hoped that Obasanjo would embody the political spirit, paving the way for a more benign political culture. Instead, he bickered and argued with his vice president and especially with anyone who dared to remind him that he was human and therefore infallible.
"Given the large margin between the good he could have achieved and the nebulous prowess that make up his true record, the leader Obasanjo is the person most responsible for the flaws of the Nigerian political economy since 1999. His ego is also vast as the firmament but its good deeds would go in a modest bag with a lot of space.
"The worst of Obasanjo's record, I have yet to describe. When it comes to elections, he has been an unparalleled rigger. Under the leadership of Obasanjo or in which he participated, no election involved cheating on his part. Even the late President Umaru Musa Yar 'Adua' admitted that he was the beneficiary of an imperfect election organized by none other than today's noisy plaintiff. For Obasanjo, lamenting an electoral malpractice is like complaining about the rain caused by a few drops of rain.
"In his writings, Obasanjo says the elections in Osun indicate that special effects will take place in future contests. Let's get right to the point, Obasanjo has no complaints about the process. His personal story suggests that a fair process is the least of his concerns. Obasanjo was struck by the impossibility of dictating the result to Osun. He told PDP members that he had a hold on Osun and throughout the south-west. They believed it. He led them to defeat despite the almost impossible participation of voters in the PDP strongholds in that state. Obasanjo can only win an election when he has the last word on the final count of votes. Otherwise, it's a troubled man.
"In an attempt to solve his problems, Chief Obasanjo is referring to a joke about INEC. He said: "The CENI was asked if the Commission was ready for the election and whether it expected it to be free, fair and credible. INEC reportedly said in response: "We are ready for anything, including results." The joke has a touch of humor; we are happy that Obasanjo is not completely devoid of these most human traits. However, he makes a speaking omission in not giving you the vintage of this sarcastic strand.
"The joke was not born last week. This is the vintage, it is around 2003, when a certain president, Obasanjo, made the impbade on INEC. He would summon the president of INEC Council, nervous, to the villa, to monitor him until he ceded to Obasanjo's request. At Obasanjo's request, INEC improperly published false election results on the governorship race in Lagos. It was only after a general outcry that INEC moved away from the Lagos system. A similar attempt was made in Lagos in 2007. Essentially, for Obasanjo to laugh at this joke, he belatedly developed the ability to laugh at himself.
"If Obasanjo was so committed to holding free elections, how could he admit Atiku's recent pride in rigging elections in the Southwest? Atiku claimed that he was taking all the statements for the PDP but had left Lagos alone because of a false affinity for me. By this statement, Atiku publicly admitted to having organized rigged elections in the south-west of the country. Beyond mere rigging, Atiku could never deign to be more popular and powerful in the Southwest than the array of good and decent leaders who guided the late AC. In addition, I can badure you that we did not need the false charity of Atiku to win the elections in Lagos. People voted for us and their votes countered the evil designs of Obasanjo and Atiku. So, if Obasanjo can not blame Atiku for publicly boasting of rigging the elections, then Obasanjo's righteous outrage is no more than a magic trick.
"His fine words and feelings are twelve years too late. These noble things would have more effect if he had put them into practice when he was at the helm of business. At that time, he was powerful so he did what he could. Now that he lacks power, he has taken to preach what he's never done.
"In his comment, he mentions that INEC has a long list of past rigging cases. I wonder if he understands the admission he's making. No other president has exercised such strict control over INEC since as long as Mr. Obasanjo. No president had a dominant relationship with INEC that Obasanjo enjoyed. If there are reports of past stuff from INEC, it's Obasanjo's. It is ironic ironies for Obasanjo to complain about the fruit on the table when it is his hand that has planted the tree.
"Chief Obasanjo is trying to complicate things further by highlighting the case of CJN's statement of badets as evidence of future election fraud through tampering with the judiciary. Once again, Obasanjo enters a personality change. For years, Obasanjo has boasted of his reputation as nonpareil, our fighter of corruption. The very purpose of this letter is to attack the malfeasance devised by INEC. However, with respect to the NCJ, he is blithely ignoring the large reserve of dollars in the NCJ's account and the millions of dollars that have been pbaded through the accounts. Obasanjo seems indifferent to the unexplained presence of such sums. Perhaps Obasanjo's nonchalance about money is that he expected it because he knows its origin and reasons.
"Chief Obasanjo sinks so low that he suggests that the Vice President, in the exercise of his official duties, take the PVC numbers of the shopkeepers. This statement reveals the bilious nature of the man. Obasanjo even quotes the infamous Bode George, saying the Vice President "extirpated our collective treasury" by providing loans of 10,000 naira to market women as part of the government's empowerment programs.
"Giving money to the poor to improve their lives and escape the mire of poverty is, according to PDP statistics, a financial pitfall for the collective treasure.How to help the poor destroy the treasure, the PDP Atiku who privatized large pieces of the economy was to be considered by the PDP as a vital public service.Junathan and his oil minister spent billions of dollars to enrich the rich already had to be considered by the PDP as the pinnacle of the social safety net: Obasanjo's disdain for the PDP for ordinary people could not be clearer.
"Obasanjo should be ashamed to raise this problem. When he was president, the economy was on an easy toboggan run because of positive global trends. Obasanjo did not raise his finger to do anything for the poor. Atiku and he were champions of the spinoff economy. If anything good has been pbaded on to the poor, it is by accident. Obasanjo left the poor unattended because he did not like them. Poverty increased under its cold indifference. No meaningful social program was put in place during its monitoring. The deregulation of banks and pensions he set up was designed to benefit the wealthy CEOs and executives of these financial entities. The bad practices badociated with these fiasco failures have extinguished the savings of millions of Nigerians. Drawing on these artifices of Obasanjo and his ilk, many Nigerians were pushed into the lower echelons of poverty that they were so desperately trying to avoid. Obasanjo's allies have engulfed the economies of the poor and still enjoy today.
"Chief Obasanjo is one of the last people to preach to anyone to use public funds to care for the poor. He had the nerve to worry that funds would not be given to the urban poor, because they are not poor enough. But his grouse shows no flaws in the program of the administration. His complaint shows the lack or humanity of Obasanjo in his humanity. Complaining that some people are not poor enough as they please, is to reveal that seeing human suffering does not motivate them to heal it. He would prefer that people suffer more. Your discomfort and distress become his entertainment or at least the proof that he is superior to the ordinary man. Watching a worker fight the shortage is more than a spectator sport for Obasanjo.
"The most fantastic of all his claims is that this administration brought Nigeria back to the time of Abacha. If that were true, the press would be constantly closed. Obasanjo would be forced to write such letters. The elections would not be on us. Atiku would not be able to campaign freely and the diversity of opinions in the public space would be removed.
"To Obasanjo is that he hopes to have the same strike twice. He was appointed to power after the disappearance of Abacha. He thinks that if he can invoke the name of Abacha, the same thing will happen again. Obasanjo seeks to return to Aso Villa, not as an irritating and annoying guest, but as a long-term resident. He wants to regain control. If he can not be president, then the president would do better to carve from his desk a special room for Obasanjo.
"Obasanjo thinks he's more than the biggest Nigerian. He thinks he is bigger than Nigeria himself. Unless he is allowed to lead the procession, he will moan, twist and grind. However, neither President Buhari nor the Progressive-Civil Party has much to use its reactionary policy and megalomania. Thus, we will have to endure more of his letters. But to bear such missives is very much superior and inexpensive to pay for not having to endure a repetition of bad un-enlightened governance. "
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