Pro-Buhari group slams Obasanjo, says his letter an open confrontation against the North

A re-election campaign group for President Muhammadu Buhari, the Democratic Youths Congress (DYC), on Friday fumed at former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter asking President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election.

The group described the call as an open confrontation against the North.
Obasanjo had in the open letter, asked Buhari to go home and rest and not try seeking re-election. The former leader had cited issues of nepotism, Buhari’s health, clannishness, perceived pampering of killer herdsmen, insipidity of the current government as some of the reasons for his advice.

But the pro-Buhari group, on Friday in Owerri, the Imo State capital, said the letter was “an open confrontation against the North, wondering how the former leader will chose to rise against the “North that made him what he is”.

The group’s national chairman, Kassim Mohammad Kassim, further argued that the letter was not in the interest of the nation as supposedly claimed by Obasanjo, but the former leader’s scheme to re-launch himself to relevance ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Kassim, is a member of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly and represents Akwanga South constituency.

He said, “I want to categorically state that, not because I am a member of the All Progressives Congress or running a campaign team for Buhari but as a matter of fact, Nigerians will agree with me that some of our past leaders are the problem of this country.

“Why I am saying this is that I want to specifically respond to former President Olusegun Obasanjo because Nigerians will agree that when he (Obasanjo) was President, all his activities were centred on himself alone and that was why he wanted the third term to remain in power and die in power but since that plan was truncated, he became demoralized and felt so bad that Nigerians rejected him to that extent because he was not having any agenda that could promote this country.

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“As far as we are concerned Obasanjo as a former President has not added any value to the system or created any solution for the issues he raised in his letter and he has nothing to show for his eight years regime.”

Speaking further, Kashim said that his group is not worried about Obasanjo’s letter “because we know that Nigerians are aware of Buhari’s achievements. In fact, we are mobilizing I.5million Nigerian youths from across the 36 states for a rally in Abuja to drum support for the President’s re-election.”

The letter since published in the media on Tuesday has generated a lot of controversies with many Nigerians expressing joy with Obasanjo, while some kicked and condemned the letter.

 

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