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Balarabe Musa Accuses Obasanjo Of Having Laid Foundation For Impunity In Nigeria

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Former civilian governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of laying the foundation for impunity in the country.

The elder statesman also accused Obasanjo of doing worse than the present government in terms of using instruments of state to harass political opponents or opposition.

The elder statesman was reacting to the former president’s latest letter in which he expressed doubt over the integrity of the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) toconduct credible and fair elections in the 2019 general elections.

Balarabe Musa, in an interview, said that Obasanjo did not only harass his political opponents but killed them, adding: “Obasanjo did that. Obasanjo did worse than what is happening today. In fact he continued like his predecessors in laying the foundation for the present negative state of the nation.

“I have been aware of obasanjo’s attitude towards those in power. Since after he handed power as a military president, he has been consistently acting like an agent provocateur on behalf of international imperialism, particularly now that Nigeria has no alternative.

“It can’t rely on PDP; it can’t rely on the APC. They are both the same. They are both at the root of the present negative state of the nation and most unfortunately, there is no credible, demonstrative and qualitative alternative in view from the political system. Nigeria is now facing a calamity and Obasanjo is using it, apparently to serve the interest of imperialism.

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“Watch it, instead of using his relevance as former head of state to correct things, he always wait until things are bad and he makes it even worse.”

This was even as the President of the Center for Democracy (CD), Usman Abdul also said that Obasanjo is not a saint and can therefore not criticize President Muhammadu Buhari’s led federal government.

Usman Abdul accused the former president of doing exactly what he is criticizing the Buhari led Federal Government of, adding that Obasanjo played of the game of highhandedness when he was president.

“During the era of president Obasanjo too you will agree with me that there were some unlawful and unwarranted highhandedness that happened. He is equally not a saint as far as democracy is concerned.

“You will remember vividly that the Lagos state funds were at his disposal till after he left that the late President Yar’Adua released those funds for Lagos state.

“That military mentality is still within those people despite being in a democratic setting. It is left for we the civil society to as a matter of urgency look for credible democrats to head or lead this country and take us to the promise land.”

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