Katsina elders lambast Obasanjo over criticism of Buhari's administration

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- A group in Katsina state has lambasted former president Olusegun Obasanjo for criticising the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari

- The group called Katsina State Senior Citizen's Forum, said Obasanjo erred in his assessment of the current administration

- According to the group, Nigerians have a serious and honest president who has restored the dignity of Nigeria and Nigerians

A group called Katsina State Senior Citizen's Forum has dismissed ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo's criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, saying that his assertion that the administration has failed was unsubstantiated, The Nation reports.

NAIJ.com gathered that the reaction of the group was contained in an advertorial published in some national dailies on Wednesday, February 21 and signed by its chairman, Hon Justice Mamman Nasir and secretary/coordinator Alh Aliyu Sani Mohammed.

The statement read: “Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have bothered commenting on the letter, considering the writer’s personality. However, we feel it is our duty to put the records straight for the sake of posterity.

“Nigerians have realised that they have never had it so good. They have a serious and honest president who has restored the dignity of Nigeria and Nigerians. Above all, we want to make it categorically clear that Obasanjo is not what he claims to be and has no right to decide for Nigerians who to vote for, in that we are wiser now and this is democracy.

“It is still fresh in our memory the $16 billion claimed to have been spent on power during Obasanjo’s tenure without any improvement. Again, the source of the over seven billion naira library built by Obasanjo is not known, talk less of his renovated hill top residence in Abeokuta.

“Meanwhile, we want to assure Obasanjo and his co-travellers that the Nigerian masses are satisfied with the present administration and have absolute confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari. We have compared achievements with the meagre resources that accrued to this government from May 2015 to April 2017 with that of the PDP administration spanning 16 years and are convinced that corruption has been scrapped from the system.”

The group stated that Buhari’s administration realised only $52 billion from May 2015 to April 2017 as against PDP’s over $440 billion in five years, 2010 to 2015, and that the developmental projects executed by the APC within two years surpassed PDP’s 16 years in office, including Obasanjo’s tenure.

The statement added: “Even the northern governors at one of their meetings in 2017 contested the possibility of herdsmen creating all the atrocities, convinced that a lot of what was alleged is not true. How do you explain a Fulani man with 100 heads of cattle attacking and killing communities and vanishing? Is it really practically possible to commit such an atrocity and disappear in the thin air with his 100 heads of cattle in tow undetected?

“It is no surprise a lot of corrupt people surrounding Obasanjo, some of whom have been indicted for corruption, are shamelessly flaunting their stolen wealth and are even gearing to contest election.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that a civil society organisation named The True Coalition for Nigeria condemned the recent comments made by former president Olusegun Obasanjo against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

‎Obasanjo, in a 13-page statement released on Tuesday, January 23, described President Buhari as clannish, nepotic and insincere in fulfilling the promises made to Nigerians.

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