Politicians are always being accused of saying not truth, but just something to have a better face for their voters. So it is instructive to recall every current comment against the dependable background of history. 



Yesterday, February 11th, information emerged that former Nigeria’s president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo had at last expressed his support to one of the presidential candidates  the opposition’s leader, General Muhammadu Buhari – even going so far as to suppose that incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan is ‘mediocre.’

General Buhari in his response to the endorsement told Christiane Amanpour on CNN that he is very happy of such development.

He said: “It means more supporters and more confidence for those still sitting on the fence. He’s well respected. No serious issue can happen (in Nigeria) without people seeking his opinion and listening to it.”

But let’s recall the year of 2012, when Mr. Buhari blamed President Jonathan, Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo for ‘killing’ Nigeria’s oil industry.


He also accused them of the Nigeria’s terrorism.

According to Sahara Reporters, Buhari said: “The biggest challenge of Nigeria is for adequate security to be in place and ways in which we can protect the riches of this country and provide job opportunities for the youths in the country, so that we can build more industries as it was before.”

“Inability of these industries to work has brought mistrust and corruption to Nigeria. Therefore, our leaders have to be sincere and lead with the fear of God and carry all along for Nigeria to be a better place.”



In 2004, Vanguard reported this story: “Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), General Muhammadu Buhari, has accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of habitually shedding crocodile tears after each mayhem in the country “when he would have averted them through purposeful leadership and genuine concern for the lives and welfare of the citizens.”



In a comment in Abuja, General Buhari was cited by his spokesperson, Mr. Uche Ezechukwu, as lamenting “the inability of the Obasanjo administration under whose tenure Nigeria has recorded the greatest number of violent incidents and consequently the highest number of losses of innocent lives since the civil war, to have found a proactive formula for stemming the tide of those frequent and totally avoidable incidents.”

This is similar of El-Rufai’s apparently gave support of Buhari right now when in the past he wrote polemics against the general.

It should be noted that Chief Obasanjo has already denied endorsing APC presidential candidate, saying he wants a strong president for Nigeria.

The ruling Peoples Democratic Congress speaking about Obasanjo’s decision said Obasanjo is entitled to his own opinion.

While ex-minister of State for Defence Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has stated that Obasanjo’s endorsement is meaningless.

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saaedlee:
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Those people are hypocrites, they only go for what will favours them. Let's assume despite his support for GMB and GEJ win, what do u think will happen?. That means he don buy bad market.