National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an expired Nigerian politician.
Speaking today, Monday, at the presidential campaign rally of President Muhammadu Buhari in Borno state advised Obasanjo to confine himself to his farming business in Ota, Ogun state.
The former Lagos state governor noted that Obasanjo failed the Yoruba people when he refused to recognize June 12 as democracy day, despite pressures mounted on him to do so.
Tinubu said that the fact that President Buhari had the courage to recognize June 12 as democracy day pointed him out as a democrat.
Tinubu accused the former president of championing rigging in Nigeria’s electoral process, adding that he is incompetent to criticize Buhari over impunity.
“You can hear the other expired leaders like Obasanjo ranting and lying, don’t believe him, don’t trust him he is expired.
“He is calling a party of this nature with the symbol of a broom, we are sweeping all the cobwebs, dirt and corruption away to give Nigerians a new lease of life and hope, that is what Muhammadu Buhari is doing and we are with him one hundred percent.
“The insecurity experienced under Obasanjo I think Ota should be enough retirement place to keep quiet, who can recall the year 2003 election. Who among Nigerians would not recall Obasanjo rigging excesses of 2007.
“I won’t spend my precious time doing that today, I will do that in the future, Buhari has been upright, firm, steady and focused with a great vision for the betterment of our country.
“No other President has upheld democratic principles as Muhammadu Buhari, we the yoruba cannot forget in a hurry Obasanjo’s shenanigan, what he did in 1999 we gave it to him but he cannot remember for once and actualize MKOs mandate for June 12, he ruled 1999, 2003,2007 we asked him for the recognition and actualization of that date, he failed, who declared June 12 as democracy day, Muhammadu Buhari who then is a better Democrat.”
