The Nigerian government has reacted to an allegation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the Buhari administration was plotting his arrest on false charges.

The former leader made the allegation on Friday in a statement by his aide.

He said there were plans to detain him indefinitely as punishment for speaking out against the government’s maladministration and ineptitude.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who reacted on behalf of the government said the Buhari Administration will not be distracted by “frivolous allegations from any quarter, especially those cleverly choreographed to divert attention from a widely-acclaimed presidential proclamation and to shore up support for a waning and egotistical cause”.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday, the Minister said the administration is “too busy trying to clear the mess of 16 years and build on its unprecedented achievements over the past three years to waste its energy and time on framing up anyone or dwelling on issues that are not grounded in fact”.

He said while “those who have skeletons in their wardrobes should be afraid, even of their own shadows, innocent persons need not worry about any investigation, whether real or imagined”.

”This administration will never engage in a frame-up of innocent citizens. That is neither in the character of President Muhammadu Buhari nor in that of his administration. Only the guilty should be worried. To paraphrase an African proverb, a man who has no wife cannot lose an inlaw to the cold hands of death.

”The administration is also strongly committed to the tenets of democracy, including freedom of speech and the right to dissent. But we understand that those who, in their time, were untethered to those principles would find it hard to believe,” Alhaji Mohammed said.

The Minister said it was curious that the frame-up and witch-hunt allegations came a day after a major presidential proclamation reversing some past acts of injustice was made, to the relief and acclamation of a long-expectant nation.

”Apparently, the impact of this proclamation was too much to bear by those who, through acts of omission or commission, helped to deepen the wounds inflicted by the blow of injustice that followed an election that was widely acclaimed to be free, fair and credible, hence they felt the need for a red herring that will distract the nation.

”Added to that is the frustration brought about by the fact that the contraption they have so much hyped as a freeway to power has failed to gain traction. Faced with this double tragedy, even the strongest of men may begin to succumb to a figment of their imagination. They may start crying wolf where there is none,” he said.

Mr Mohammed said the “unprecedented achievements of the Buhari Administration are also enough to cause sleepless nights, with the attendant symptoms that include phantasm, for those who had better opportunities to make the country great but floundered on the altar of narcissism”.


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Baba OBJ pls time to go home.

kbbanj10:
Baba OBJ pls time to go home.

go which home? are you saying that you have more intelligence report than a retired general and former president? obj has it faults but he is miles ahead of the nomad
Buhari has failed in all aspects of and you should not reinforce failure

CilicMarin:
Obasanjo wants to divert attention

Yes oh...

As some one posted on facebook and I quote....OBJ is just trying to disrupt the POPULAR PUBLIC EUPHORIA that heralded the President's proclamation on Bashorun MKO Abiola GCFR
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He has failed

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yomi96:
go which home? are you saying that you have more intelligence report than a retired general and former president? obj has it faults but he is miles ahead of the nomad
Buhari has failed in all aspects of and you should not reinforce failure

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Did you say the same, when he accused your buffoonery hero of training 1000 Snipers to kill him in 2014?

CilicMarin:
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Did you say the same, when he accused your buffoonery hero of training 1000 Snipers to kill him in 2014?

inchorent rant as usual which typifies the kind of lazy intellects that supports incompetence.
Only thieves, lazy vagabounds, senile idiots and unrepentant dogs lacking decency in every regards support a regime that brought poverty while mortgaging the future generations into debt.

CilicMarin:
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Did you say the same, when he accused your buffoonery hero of training 1000 Snipers to kill him in 2014?

inchorent rant as usual which typifies the kind of lazy intellects that supports incompetence. that line is stale already.
Only thieves, lazy vagabounds, senile idiots and unrepentant dogs lacking decency in every regards support regime that brought poverty while mortgaging the future generations into debt.

goodluck ignores critics but buhari doesn't. if you know you know

Mr Mohammed said the “unprecedented achievements of the Buhari Administration are also enough to cause sleepless nights, with the attendant symptoms that include phantasm, for those who had better opportunities to make the country great but floundered on the altar of narcissism”.
The joke is rather on the present useless government who out of desperation for political survival have reverted to outright political schemings & lawlessness to shore up it battered image.
Propaganda is not gonna save your sorry ass.I recall Buhari so much idolizes Abacha but where is the latter today.We all have a date with posterity.

No big deal, just politics.


OBJ needed to shout in advance, since all opposing forces are tagged criminal

CilicMarin:
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Did you say the same, when he accused your buffoonery hero of training 1000 Snipers to kill him in 2014?

Guess you all in the APC were cheering him on then.Now dog is eating dog, the "navigator of APC" is now an plague.
Well a leopard never changes its skin.Let the roforofo fight continues.Nigeria will be better for it.

Lai Mohammed just finish Obj with the response

life2017:
Lai Mohammed just finish Obj with the response

as in the response na FATALITY! Chai Obj is finished

Kai!

Lai too get mouth.

Your mouth wee nor kee u wan day.

This is the Lai I know. The man PDP hoped they had.

Obasanjo better respect himself and rather hold on to the little left of his reputation that is increasingly losing it importance.

After his failed third term agenda, he couldn't help come to term that Aso rock is not his living room where he is at liberty to take decision and turn on the control switch at will.

He would cry foul and go the "Open Letter" way when denied or ignored.

In Buhari, he has a former military man just like himself who has seen it all.

If there is one man who can tame Mathew, it's no one else than Muhammadu.

He should be aware that Nigerians won't fancy a position amounting to "The Baba Isale of Aso rock".

June 12 dey pepper OBJ for body. Nigger couldn't sleep and started hallucinating that PMB was after him. A classical case of " the wicked flee when no one pursuet ".

Just to divert attention back to himself, he claims the FG are also coming for Dogara and suddenly Atiku that was quite all these days too has found his voice in support of OBJ.

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KanuJEWSarePIGS:
Kai!

Lai too get mouth.

Your mouth wee nor kee u wan day.

This is the Lai I know. The man PDP hoped they had.

Obasanjo better respect himself and rather hold on to the little left of his reputation that is increasingly losing it importance.

After his failed third term agenda, he couldn't help come to term that Aso rock is not his living room where he is at liberty to take decision and turn on the control switch at will.

He would cry foul and go the "Open Letter" way when denied or ignored.

In Buhari, he has a former military man just like himself who has seen it all.

If there is one man who can tame Mathew, it's no one else than Muhammadu.

He should be aware that Nigerians won't fancy a position amounting to "The Baba Isale of Aso rock".

Na so. Keep fooling yourself

yomi96:
inchorent rant as usual which typifies the kind of lazy intellects that supports incompetence.
Only thieves, lazy vagabounds, senile idiots and unrepentant dogs lacking decency in every regards support a regime that brought poverty while mortgaging the future generations into debt.

go and get a good job for yasef

yomi96:
go which home? are you saying that you have more intelligence report than a retired general and former president? obj has it faults but he is miles ahead of the nomad
Buhari has failed in all aspects of and you should not reinforce failure

....Sai Baba for trying to heal a sore wound correcting what u know was wrong that u were part of

Paperwhite:
Mr Mohammed said the “unprecedented achievements of the Buhari Administration are also enough to cause sleepless nights, with the attendant symptoms that include phantasm, for those who had better opportunities to make the country great but floundered on the altar of narcissism”.
The joke is rather on the present useless government who out of desperation for political survival have reverted to outright political schemings & lawlessness to shore up it battered image.
Propaganda is not gonna save your sorry ass.I recall Buhari so much idolizes Abacha but where is the latter today.We all have a date with posterity.

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the joke is on some people and their villages.... calling a government useless does not make it so.... that phrase probably refers to someone's urgent need to take more control of his or her life and find something doing that will be more beneficial to the society than hate speeches up an down Nairaland. Shiorr