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If you don’t like Buhari wait for next election, not wishing him dead – Obasanjo

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If you don’t like Buhari wait for next election, not wishing him dead – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on haters of President Muhammadu Buhari to stop wishing him dead and wait until the next election to express whatever they feel against him.

This is as he described those who went to the extent of wishing him dead as callous, wicked and treacherous, adding that they were abnormal to have wished an elderly person dead.

While he said that what Buhari needed from Nigerians, regardless of whatever some people feel about him was prayer, Obasanjo recalled that he has also been rumoured dead about 12 times.

Obasanjo’s reaction was made available to newsmen by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta on Friday.

He warned those behind the rumoured death of President Buhari to forthwith desist from such as no normal being wishes an elderly person dead regardless of their differences.

He said, “Instead of embarking on such worrisome declaration, all that the President needed “are our prayers and best wishes, which will ginger his morale to come back more stronger and better. No normal human being will wish an elderly person dead irrespective of their differences. If you don’t like him, wait for another election, not going about to say he is dead.

“No matter his health situation, we should pray for him to recover quick and come back more stronger and better. For anyone wishing him dead, such person or group of persons are callous, wicked and treacherous.

“I was also rumoured to have died almost 12 times. I don’t know what they derive from doing so, but, they should seek for forgiveness.

“Even if we know that the President is sick, he is in a better position to know what to say or what to do and not wishing him dead. We should just stop politicizing everything, especially with the elderly in the country,” Obasanjo said.

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Days after President Buhari embarked on a 10-day vacation to the United Kingdom on January 19, social media and other internet news platforms were awash with different versions of how he died in a London hospital.

Even after the Presidency refuted the rumour, many Nigerians insisted he had died, with some demanding that he make a public statement for Nigerians to know that he is still alive.

A recent call the president is said to have made from UK, and a photograph he took with the wife and another with Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, seem to have silenced, to a great extent, those who insisted he was dead.

 

 

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  1. yanju omotodun

    February 4, 2017 at 8:32 am

    But if buhari can take photographs, then what stops him from making a video with all the acclaimed people who met with him in London. Well I don’t wish him dead but I don’t want history to repeat itself.

    • Margret Dickson

      February 4, 2017 at 8:52 am

      His two weeks vacation will be over tomorrow, by Monday, he’s supposed to resume duties. You will see videos in two days, just cross your legs and sip some cold juice while you anticipate the visuals of his arrival back to Nigeria

  2. Johnson Amadi

    February 4, 2017 at 8:44 am

    Those people behind the rumour are indeed callous, wicked and treacherous, in fact they don’t have human feelings. How easy do they think thing in Nigeria would be if Buhari dies in service? They don’t have sense at all

    • Amaka Okoro

      February 5, 2017 at 1:52 am

      There is sense because buhari is not useful to this country and he deserve what ever thing they say about him

  3. Gold Ruyondo

    February 4, 2017 at 9:05 am

    its God who decides

  4. Balarabe musa

    February 4, 2017 at 9:12 am

    I wonder what you people derive in heralding sad news. Baba buhari is alive and sound. Even he will rule till 2023 Insha Allah.

    • JOHNSON PETER

      February 4, 2017 at 9:33 am

      Aboki. In your widest dream would you think Nigerians will be fooled again to vote for buhari comes 2019 if truly he is still alive.

    • Joy Madu

      February 5, 2017 at 1:48 am

      Ewu do you know your Allah is dead because no matter what buhari will still remain a dead man so 2023 or whatever you call it will not work

  5. Roland Uchendu Pele

    February 4, 2017 at 10:14 am

    “We should just stop politicizing everything, especially with the elderly in the country,”

    Is OBJ in anyway soliciting for the aged in the country? I don’t understand.
    Was this not what Buhari signed for when he became the President of Nigeria?
    Please, we demand respect and accountability. We are not asking for too much.

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