A member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, yesterday lambasted former president, Olusegun Obasanjo for blaming president Goodluck Jonathan for the high rate of corruption and insecurity in the country.
He asserted that the retired military General had no moral right to criticise President Goodluck Jonathan.
Also, former Petroleum Resources Minister, Alhaji Shettima Monguno, has said that Obasanjo’s comments were out of line.
Obasanjo recently at event in Warri criticised Jonathan’s poor handling of corruption and the incessant killings in the North by the Boko Haram sect.
Kashamu, in a statement in Abeokuta said it was Obasanjo who laid the foundation by allowing illegal activities to take over the county during his administration.
He said, “Perhaps, the point should be made – and poignantly too – that the earlier Obasanjo purges himself of his messianic postures, the better it would be for him and the nation at large. He is quick to recount his exploits while in office. But the truth is: the foundation of some of the challenges that we are grappling with today were laid during his last years in office.”
The party chieftain also claimed that Obasanjo is trying to score cheap credit.
Similarly, Mongun told newsmen in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Saturday, that the ex president lacked moral right to criticise Jonathan
He said, “Somebody who wanted to extend his tenure beyond the constitutional term; tried his very best to extend but was rejected, is now advising government to do the wrong thing”.
“I do not agree with our former President that Jonathan should use force, or use the military to crush what they always call the Boko Haram.”
Monguno added that even in the military, soldiers do not want to go to war unless it is absolutely necessary.
He noted that rather than use force, president Jonathan should settle for a peace talk with the Islamist fundamentalists
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