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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
has again torn at President Goodluck
Jonathan, saying Nigerian democracy
remained at risk due to the action of
the present administration.
Speaking at a book Launch in honour
of the pioneer chairman of the
Independent Corrupt Practices
Commission, ICPC, Mustapha Akanbi,
in Abuja, Mr. Obasanjo, who is the
Chairman of the occasion, said the
president should stop encouraging
‘verbal violence which may not
physically hurt but has ways of
degenerating into physical violence’.
Mr. Obasanjo said the greatest
indictment against any
administration is to be seen trying to
destroy opposition of all sorts which
invariably mean destroying
democracy.
“Management of democracy without
resorting to brute force and
dictatorial tendencies must be
cultivated,” the former President
said.
“As a leader, you must not
deliberately do evil or condone evil. You
should know that you will one day give
account to God, you may cover up
here, but before God, there is no cover
up.”
The former president also spoke at
lenght on the President’s handling of
the Boko Haram
insurgency, corruption, the economy
and youth unemployment.
On insecurity, Mr. Obasanjo said Boko
Haram is not out to “frustrate
anyone’s political efforts” and
lamented that it took Mr. Jonathan
the years to fully understand the
menace.
On corruption, Mr. Obasanjo said,
“when the head is rotten, the whole
body is useless”
On the economy, he said Nigeria would
continue to sink deeper and that what
Nigerians are told about the state of
the economy “is not truly what the
economy is”.
“The economy is in doldrums, if not in
reverse,” he said.
Mr. Obasanjo’s latest attack on the
President is coming seven days after
he rated Mr. Jonathan’s performance
as below average.
The former president had spoken last
weekend in Abeokuta while addressing
book writers as part of activities
marking the Ake Arts and Book
Festival.
“I rate this current administration
below average,” Mr. Obasanjo said in
response to a question about Mr.
Jonathan’s performance.
The former president also said he
deserved credit for helping an
individual from a minority tribe
become Nigeria’s President.
“Rather than take blame for bringing
Jonathan to power, I should be taking
credit,” he added.
The Nigerian presidency responded
Sunday, slamming Mr. Obasanjo and
describing his rating as untrue and
misleading.
In a statement in Abuja, the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on
Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, said Mr.
Obasanjo’s rating was at variance
“with the facts on the ground”.
Mr. Okupe said President Jonathan
had performed so well that “in terms
of performance and achievements, no
administration since 1960 when
Nigeria gained independence from
Britain, has done as much as that of
President Jonathan”.

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