LETTER TO BUHARI: Oshiomhole thinks Obasanjo doesn’t understand challenges of nation building

Former governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has suggested that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo does not understand the challenge of nation building to have discreditted President Muhammadu Buhari in his letter.

This was as he questioned the right Obasanjo had to have advised Buhari not to contemplate seeking re-election in 2019.

He spoke during a visit to the Presidential Villa on Friday.
The former governor was reacting to Obasanjo’s recent letter entitled, ‘The Way Out: A clarion call for a Coalition for Nigeria Movement,” where he described Buhari’s government as a failure and asked him not to seek a second term in office.

Oshiomhole, said he was in the Presidential Villa to reassure Buhari of his support and also for the 2019 election, spoke with State House correspondents on Friday, soon after meeting the President behind closed doors.

“I’m not sure when I see the list of the (President’s) advisers, that President Obasanjo is one of the advisers.

“I also recall with respect that the day President Obasanjo was inaugurating some of his advisers, he did say that anybody who is not his adviser can advise him, he will make his own decisions. I think that principle still stands.

“What President Buhari inherited is difficult to describe. I have said so before that when you meet such a situation, your first task is to halt the drift. When you halt the drift, then you stabilise before you begin to go. There is no miracle about it.

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“I don’t think that anybody who understands the challenge of nation building, or national economic management and so on will expect that in two years, you can fix in a sustainable manner all of the things that have been destroyed over 16 years before this party came into office.

“Yes, there are challenges; there are a couple of things we need to begin to do and re-enforce but there is no question that a lot has begun and a lot is being done,” Oshiomhole said.

 

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