Abubakar Atiku and Olusegun Obasanjo
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed concern at alarm raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the purported plot by the federal authorities to arrest him.
Abubakar, who was vice chairman within the Obasanjo administration, mentioned he obtained with critical concern the purported alert raised by Obasanjo and appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to name the safety businesses to order so as to douse the strain within the land.
A press release issued by his media workplace in Abuja on Friday quoted him as saying: “I'm disturbed by this flip of occasions in our expensive nation contemplating the large value that was paid for us to have democracy.
“I want to recommendation that authorities and its brokers ought to retrace their steps to keep away from aggravating the already over heated polity.
“The alert by President Obasanjo is coming towards the backdrop of earlier alerts by some leaders, particularly these of the opposition of deliberate and orchestrated try to intimidate and body them up.
“I want to state with out equivocation that President Obasanjo is a historic determine in Nigeria’s democracy and that the first function of presidency is to present safety of lives and property of all residents and residents no matter their standing, political affiliation, non secular inclination and ethnic leanings.
“Our nation has lost so much precious lives and property that we can no longer afford to travel that road again.”