Obasanjo being childish with allegations of alleged plot to arrest him —Keyamo

Lagos-based lawyer, and official spokesperson Spokesperson for the 2019 Presidential Campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari, Festus Keyamo, has condemned a former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for raising an alarm that his life is in danger.

Keyamo on Saturday, described the outcry by Obasanjo as a childish prank.

It would be recalled that Chief Obasanjo had raised an alarm that the Federal Government is planning to seize his international passport, and clamp him into prison indefinitely over some trumped up crimes.

Reacting, Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in a series of tweets said “OBJ’s outcry is for two reasons: 1. To attract unearned sympathy to himself in order to deflect the damage d immortalisation of June 12 has done to his image as d main antagonist of Abiola’s mandate & to dampen d accolades going d way of PMB over d issue. It’s childish prank.

“It is moral depravity for OBJ to attempt to whip up sentiment in his latest scheme by ‘sympathising’ with the N/Assembly leadership, whereas he had consistently abused them in the past and during his time he used many devious means to remove several Senate Presidents from office.”

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Keyamo, also took a poke at other lawyers and citizens who have criticized President Buhari’s declaration of June 12 as a public holiday.

According to him, “It’s unpatriotic & callous for anyone who didn’t question whether the President in 1993 had constitutional powers to annul the will of the people at that time to rise up now to question whether the President has constitutional powers to restore the will of the people at this time.

Buhari ha d recently made an executive declaration, announcing June 12, as a public holiday, and the new date for celebration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day.

OBJ’s outcry is for two reasons: 1. To attract unearned sympathy to himself in order to deflect the damage d immortalisation of June 12 has done to his image as d main antagonist of Abiola’s mandate &
2. to dampen d accolades going d way of PMB over d issue. It’s childish prank

— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) June 8, 2018

It’s unpatriotic & callous for anyone who didn’t question whether the President in 1993 had constitutional powers to annul the will of the people at that time to rise up now to question whether the President has constitutional powers to restore the will of the people at this time

— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) June 9, 2018

It is moral depravity for OBJ to attempt to whip up sentiment in his latest scheme by ‘sympathising’ with the N/Assembly leadership, whereas he had consistently abused them in the past and during his time he used many devious means to remove several Senate Presidents from office

— Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo) June 9, 2018

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