Buhari and the Obasanjo “roadmap” to destruction

President Muhammadu Buhari seems to have a lot of time for and getting too cosy with former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

They have regular meetings and Buhari sent Obasanjo as a special envoy to help resolve a crisis in Guinea Bissau.

Ayo Adebanjo, a First and Second Republic politician, in an interview with the Daily Independent, couldn’t make much sense of Buhari claiming he is an agent of “change” while consulting with Obasanjo:

“On the frequent visits, I don’t blame Obasanjo. What about Buhari himself who is accommodating him, sending him on emissary as if there are no other capable hands in the country?

“The PDP [Peoples Democratic Party] ruled Nigeria for sixteen years. Out of that sixteen years, this is a man who failed in his eight years as president yet you are asking him to show you the roadmap, that he is the navigator? What roadmap will he show you? The roadmap that he couldn’t tour while he was in the office?

“What kind of man will leave the government and still wants to continue ruling the government? He was there as president for eight years. He was there during the time of late Umaru Yar’adua. He was there until former president Goodluck Jonathan refused to take orders from him. Put together, Obasanjo was in office for fifteen years out of the sixteen years that PDP ruled.”

Buhari once said: “PDP has destroyed Nigeria. They have made it a tradition to create poverty and crisis in the country.” Many Nigerians refer to the PDP as the “Peoples Destruction Party”.

He promised Nigerians “change”, but with Obasanjo by his side, the president is continuing the “tradition to create poverty and crisis” in Nigeria.