The presidency on Wednesday blasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his opposition to President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019, saying that his recent utterances are an indication that he is “confused and not worthy of attention.”
In a statement made available to State House correspondents in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, the Presidency maintained that whoever the former president decides to support in 2019 is irrelevant as the former president had publicly changed his mind on the matter so many times over the past few months alone.
The statement added: “Former president Obasanjo denounces one person today and supports that same person the next day.
“When it pleases him, he brings God into the matter and uses that as his excuse for whatever position he has chosen,” he said.
Shehu added that he was not surprised that newspapers reported Obasanjo expressing neutrality at a weekend forum, only for the former president to express a completely different stance after a day or two.
“We have learnt not to take his utterances seriously anymore.
“We know that the slightest wind can make him change his mind again. After all, this is the same man who publicly tore his party registration card barely four years ago, and he now claims to be backing the same party,” Shehu said.
Obasanjo, who supported President Buhari in the 2015 election but is now backing his former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, for the 2019 election, had recently refuted a report that he would maintain a neutral position in the forthcoming election, describing it as malicious.
A statement issued by his media aide, Mr Kehinde Akinyemi, had said: “It is disingenuous, if not malicious, for anyone to suggest that Chief Obasanjo was being neutral when he chose not to use the Owu Convention as a platform for political campaign but instead adopt a communal and familial approach in talking to members of his Owu family.
“For the records, and as accurately reported by some media organisations, what the former president said at the convention in Iwo was that while he would not impose any candidates on them, Nigerians should vote for credible candidates who will drive growth and development and make their lives better than it is now.”
The statement maintained that what the former president said did not suggest that he would be neutral, saying that, “only a fool will sit on the fence or be neutral when his or her country is being destroyed with incompetence, corruption, lack of focus, insecurity, nepotism, brazen impunity and denial of the obvious.
“Chief Obasanjo is no such fool nor is he so unwise.”
Hypocrite
Yet he is WORTH the presidency commenting on! I don’t know who is confused now!!
May pmb succeed
Baba is really confused to say the truth
Ewabunmi Kojusola Dahunsi if Baba supports APC is not confused but if he supports anthers part is confused so tell me who is more confused here I guess is you and APC that is confused not Baba
Osaze John I don’t blame u, I only blame the womb that brought u to this world. Idiot
Atiku has vision
We all know this
Being out of job for a very longtime in old age can make someone restless especially when you’re addicted to corrupt free-flow,proceeds at all time.And,not getting it as usual could lead the individual to insanity too.
Confused. Turn 360 within a year. Signs of tired brain
We can say that about you people. Faliled govement. Bunch of disasters
It’s only a foolish elder that allow a goat to give birth with a rope in it’s neck.
That’s just the way it is
Lol why are you daily sending emissaries to him.to support buhari
Even Buhari and Tinubu know that obj maa da won lagbo nu
Baba is oK . Buhari government is Sick
Baba is not confused before 2015 ooo but now he is confused abi
Obasanjo extremely confused
To commit incest has its price.This is the outcome.
Obj self interest is more importnt to him than d national interst. He is known for it along his party. Nigerians wise up
Hypocrites, in 2015, they ran to him calling their navigator but today, they called me a confused man. Daura straight….enter with your change!