“We don't Need Your advice”- FG Kn0cks Former President Obasanjo

Former President Obasanjo was recently giving a speech where he addressed various challenges of the country.

The former president mentioned the many issues Nigeria is facing as a nation and proffered solutions.

He also criticized former governments, including the  Buhari and Tinubu’s governments.

However, the presidency through it’s Special Advisor on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has responded to the former president Obasanjo.

The official statement reads: “Former President Obasanjo was not an ideal leader to emulate.

In a recent display of his characteristic self-importance, former President Olusegun Obasanjo once again took to the public stage to bestow his unsolicited wisdom on leadership and governance in Nigeria.

From his lofty perch, he blamed those who served after his tenure for the nation’s myriad challenges.

Unfortunately, former president Obasanjo’s habit of casting aspersions on every subsequent administration has devolved into a recurring pastime, overshadowing the expectation of an elder statesman to join a constructive dialogue on attaining national progress.

In his latest critique of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he pejoratively called ‘Baba Go Slow’ and President Bola Tinubu, who he tagged ‘Emilokan’, Chief Obasanjo used the platform provided by Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum at Yale University to unfurl his latest treatise on leadership and public morality. He also used the forum to write off Nigeria as a failing country.

It is on record that Professor Achebe rejected the third highest national honour bestowed on him by the Obasanjo-led administration in 2004 on the grounds of the prevalence of ab*se of power, corrupt!on, and poor leadership.

In rejecting the 2004 national honour by the Obasanjo administration, Achebe declared: “Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is…too d@ngerous for silence.

I must register my disappointment and protest by declining to accept the high honour awarded me in the 2004 honours list.”

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has continuously pumped himself up as the economic w!zard of Nigeria. But a reality check showed he was nothing of such.  He even recently admitted that his government made a mistake by not focussing on gas development, as the Tinubu administration does today.

After wasting billions of naira on a failed third-term project in 2007, Chief Obasanjo hurriedly organised a sh@m electoral process that would go down in history as the most fr@udulent election held in Nigeria since 1960.

President Tinubu has continued to sustain the same support and funding to the military and other security agencies.

It is the reason the country is winning in the multi-pronged fight against B0ko H@ram te*r0r!sts, b@ndits, k!dn@ppers, and other perpetrators of v!0lent cr!mes.

On matters of integrity, honesty, and morality in public leadership, Chief Obasanjo is certainly not a paragon of virtue for anyone to model after…

Br!b£ payments were made to the highest political authorities at the Villa while Obasanjo was in charge.

If former president Obasanjo had addressed the many problems he critiqued in his poorly written Yale lecture when he ruled Nigeria for eight years, President Buhari and President Tinubu would have had a much lighter burden of fixing the country.” The statement reads