Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never work with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan again as Nigeria’s president.
Premium Times reports that
he made his position known on Tuesday, January 23, in a letter he sent
to President Muhammadu Buhari about 2019 election and the state of the
nation.
Obasanjo's letter, which x-rayed Buhari’s
performance in office, has since gone viral as many Nigerians continue
to subject its contents to diverse interpretations.
The
former president, who supported Buhari of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) during the 2015 presidential election, said his love for Nigeria
and Jonathan’s lacklustre performance made him dump the PDP to support
the APC.
“All these led me to take the
unusual step of going against my own political Party, PDP, in the last
general election to support the opposite side.
“I saw that action as the best option
for Nigeria. As it has been revealed in the last three years or so, that
decision and the subsequent collective decision of Nigerians to vote
for a change was the right decision for the nation.
“For
me, there was nothing personal, it was all in the best interest of
Nigeria and, indeed, in the best interest of Africa and humanity at
large.
“Even the horse rider then, with
whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has
come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his
courage and forthrightness in this regard.
Speaking
about Jonathan, Obasanjo maintained that the former President has a
role to play in taking Nigeria to another height, but not in his
capacity as president.
“He (Jonathan) has a
role to play on the side line for the good of Nigeria, Africa and
humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role
nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria
again,” Obasanjo wrote.
He argued further
that the situation that made Nigerians to vote massively to get Jonathan
out of office is playing itself out again.
“First
, I thought I knew the point where President Buhari is weak and I spoke
and wrote about it even before Nigerians voted for him and I also did
vote for him because at that time it was a matter of “any option but
Jonathan.
“But my letter to President Jonathan
titled: “Before It Is Too Late” was meant for him to act before it was
too late. He ignored it and it was too late for him and those who goaded
him into ignoring the voice of caution.
“I
know that praise- singers and hired attackers may be raised up against
me for verbal or even physical attack but if I can withstand undeserved
imprisonment and was ready to shed my blood by standing for Nigeria, I
will consider no sacrifice too great to make for the good of Nigeria at
any time . No human leader is expected to be personally strong or self
-sufficient in all aspects of governance.”
In
2013, Obasanjo dramatically supervised the shredding of his PDP
membership card and declared he was quitting partisan politics.
In
his recent letter, he called on Nigerians to ignore both the ruling APC
and the now opposition PDP, stressing the need for the emergence of an
‘alternative’ movement.
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