SEN SANI TO BUHARI: Obasanjo’s letter is truth wrapped in dynamite, don’t ignore it

Senator Shehu Sani has described the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as truth packaged in dynamite and asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to ignore or recklessly discard it.

The senator, who represents Kaduna Central at the Senate, stated this in a statement he made available to newsmen in response to Obasanjo’s open letter to Buhari.

Obasanjo had in the letter asked Buhari not to contest for second term in office, accusing him of running a nepotistic and incompetent government.

In his reaction to the statement, Sani contrary to some of his All Progressives Congress (APC) members, who have disagreed with Obasanjo, said that the former leader’s letter, which he said is a bitter truth, “will heal the president better than the corrosive deception of the political pilgrims to the villa.”

He added that Obasanjo’s views reflected the views of many members of the political class who could not speak out due to lack of courage and possible political consequences such may have on them.

He said, “Former President Olusegun’s verdict on the Buhari administration remains his personal opinion which he is entitled to, but also had the courage, the principle and the confidence to voice it out.

“Obasanjo’s views reflect and represent the views of many members of the political ruling establishment but who simply lacks the courage to speak the truth to power, out of fear of political consequences.

“There exist a regime and climate of fear among the ruling political establishment; the views expressed before the president is a polar difference and distant from the views they express behind the president. The bitterness of Obasanjo’s truth will heal the president better than the corrosive deception of the political Pilgrims to the villa.

“Those who celebrated Obasanjo when he called National Assembly members unarmed robbers should not demonize him when he calls the knights and Courtiers of the President names.

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“Obasanjo’s letter is a truth packaged in Dynamite that must not be ignored or disposed recklessly. The ship of the Nigerian state is staggering to a halt; the nation is politically divided along ethnic and religious lines. President needs to eavesdrop on his friends to get their inner views.

“President Buhari cannot get the truth from sycophants, favour seekers, patented friends of power and people whose political survival and future is dependent on his continued stay in office even is to the detriment of his integrity or moral seat in history,” the APC senator said.

Sani has remained one of the critics of Buhari’s government from the ruling APC.

 

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