– The Northern Professional Initiative (NPI) has lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying that he is not god and cannot pronounce death or give guarantee of life
– Obasanjo’s undemocratic credentials was responsible for the death of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), advising him to stop accusing any other person of damaging the party irretrievably
– The professionals also chided the ex-president for his veiled criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari’s handling of the economy, and his decision to score the president low on the subject-matter
The Northern Professional Initiative (NPI) has lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying that he is not god and cannot pronounce death or give guarantee of life.
National Leader of APC,Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, during the Grand Opening of the Olusegun Obasanjo President Library
Vanguard reports that the group in a statement specifically said Obasanjo’s undemocratic credentials was responsible for the death of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), advising him to stop accusing any other person of damaging the party irretrievably.
“It is very characteristic of former President Obasanjo to see himself as being the hero and messiah in any environment he finds himself. But as far as his comments about the PDP is concerned, we want to remind him, one more time, that he (Obasanjo) is not God, and it is not in his place to pronounce death or give guarantee of life.
“Everyone knows that Obasanjo left no room for internal democracy to thrive within the PDP when he resigned as president and self-anointed himself as the leader of the party.
If truly, the PDP is dead and buried, then let no one be left in doubt that Obasanjo is both the executioner and undertaker of the political party that was once hugely generous to him,” the statement noted.
The professionals also chided the ex-president for his veiled criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari’s handling of the economy, and his decision to score the president low on the subject-matter.
The statement signed by the President of NPI, Mallam Abdullahi Gazali said: “it is on record and has become emblematic of the Obasanjo presidency how he (Obasanjo) plundered failed power projects.
The history is also very recent to be forgotten too soon, of how Obasanjo notoriously sat tight on the financial records of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and gave retroactive approval of the Federal Executive Council to contracts he solely awarded on behalf of the NNPC.”
The group said it was uncharitable for Obasanjo whose administration signposted malfeasance in public service and executive recklessness to come out and talk down on the tremendous efforts being made by the Buhari administration to correct many of the ills that Obasanjo planted during his eight-year administration.
According to the NPI, “these ills many of them having been planted by Obasanjo himself during his feisty and ruthless presidency laid the foundation for the challenges bugging us as a country today.
And, whereas the Buhari presidency will be acknowledged as championing the fight against corruption with tangible results to show for it, during Obasanjo’s administration the fight against corruption was essentially a witch-hunt of political opponents.”
Continuing, the group also noted that while Obasanjo remarked during the opening of his presidential library that the Yorubas do not follow anyone whose source of wealth is shrouded in secrecy, “he should have gone further to explain the mystery of how he came about the wealth around him today when he was officially declared bankrupt shortly before becoming president in 1999.”
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