The chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof Itse Sagay has reportedly described as an insulting the letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari by Olusegun Obasanjo.
In the letter, Obasanjo asked Buhari to jettison the idea of seeking re-election because he had failed the country in many fronts.
The Nation reports that Sagay said it was disrespecting for Obasanjo, who vigorously pursued a third term in office, to write such a letter.
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“I saw Obasanjo’s comments and I could not believe my eyes, that a man who tried to get a third term is discouraging someone else from getting a second term. It doesn’t make sense.
“I think Obasanjo should try and respect other people. He has achieved a lot. He is a great man and I respect him. But he should learn to respect other people and think of them as being, at least, as good as himself.
“I think it is insulting for a man who wanted third term to tell somebody else not to want second term. It is most inappropriate, and for a former head of state to say so is most improper," he said.
In his own reaction, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and leader of the National Intervention Movement (NIM) Dr Olisa Agbakoba, said Obasanjo’s suggestion to Buhari was very great.
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He said: “It (Obasanjo’s call) is a great idea as Buhari hasn’t anything left to offer. We at the Third Force will build a new coalition to take power.”
NAIJ.com earlier reported that the second vice president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Barrister Monday Ubani, declared the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as a failure saying they would be changed in 2019.
Ubani, a diehard supporter and admirer of Buhari, said this in a post hours after a letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a lengthy letter to Buhari, asked the latter to withdraw from the 2019 race if he had any prior interest.
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Wednesday, 24 January 2018