Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Governor Ayodele Fayose spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, has urged the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, Garba Shehu, not to drag his boss into Buhari’s messy fight with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Olayinka called on the presidency to fight its battles alone, adding that “when they were going to Obasanjo’s house to prostrate for him to get his support, they didn’t remember that he was a despot and that he spent $16bn on power.”
Fayose’s aide also challenged the president to go ahead and arrest Obasanjo, since he had challenged them to probe him.
He said: “What are they waiting for? As far as we are concerned, Obasanjo and Buhari are allies in the comity of dictators and treasury looters. It was under Obasanjo that Buhari served as the Minister of Petroleum and the NNPC chairman in 1977 and N2.8bn oil money went missing from the accounts of the NNPC in Midlands Bank, United Kingdom. N2.8bn as of that time is like $2.8bn (over N1tr) now!
“It is the height of hypocrisy for Garba Shehu to have stated that none of the absurdities recorded under Obasanjo had happened under President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Garba Shehu should tell Nigerians what this government has done differently. Today, Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is now a country where Nigerians are arrested and detained without trial and orders of the court to release them are brazenly disobeyed.”