2019: OBASANJO BLASTS BUHARI AGAIN, REVEALS HOW TO KICK HIM OUT OF OFFICE
2019:
OBASANJO BLASTS BUHARI AGAIN, REVEALS HOW TO KICK HIM OUT OF OFFICE
Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has again blasted
the Federal Government for always giving unnecessary excuses and not doing
enough in rescuing the country out of its present challenges.
He made this known while hosting a group of young professionals
under the aegis of Nigerian Young Professionals Forum and New Nigeria 2019 in
Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He advised the youth to take charge of their destiny instead of
waiting for tomorrow that may never come, urging them to ignore excuses from
leaders he described as incompetent and ineffective.
Obasanjo suggested that a coalition of all the movements in the
country and poaching of the ‘uninfected members’ of the leprous APC and PDP to
join the mass coalitions, would bring about the needed change in leadership in
2019.
“The point is this: the way to wrest power is to know that those
that are there, you have to carry them along so that they will willingly (yield
space).. so that they will not be frightened, they will not be intimidated.
“But this time, for us to make it, we need all hands on deck. You
see, I have publicly said and I mean it, that as a party, neither PDP nor APC
can get us there as they have been.
“Never mind about reforms and apology and all that. And yet we
have to get there. I asked one of the foundation members of PDP, the PDP when
we started, was it a grassroots party? He said it was an elitist party.
“Really, we have never had the so-called grassroots party. Even
NEPU which we could say is the nearest, was not grassroot enough.
“And I believe strongly that we must have a strong popular
grassroots movement to bring about the change, sustainability and stability
that we need in our democracy and development.
“I am happy to meet with you but don’t take anything for granted.
There will be a lot of work that we have to do.
“What those I call power addicts would want to do is to divide you
based on gender, age, tribe, religion and region. You have one commonality –
interest of Nigeria.
“And it doesn’t matter where you come from. We had that interest.
The truth is this: when you have an ineffective and incompetent government, we
are all victims.
“And don’t let anybody deceive you. Those of you who are in
business, your business could have been better today if we have a competent and
effective and performing government.
“As I said, stop giving excuses; we met challenges. If there are
no challenges, then we wouldn’t need you to come. You come in because you know
there are challenges and then giving us excuse that you have many challenges,
that is why you haven’t achieved results.
“And then you still want to go. The first lesson I learnt in my
military training is never reinforce failure. What we have now is failure.
Never you reinforce failure. Let failure be failure.
“And if you do not see what you should see, you will then be a
victim of what you don’t like because it’s only when you see what you should
see and you do what you should do that you put away what you do not like. And
if you don’t see what you should see and you don’t do what you should do, you
will be a victim of what you don’t like.
“But let us bring together all these movements because we are
pursuing the same thing. If we allow ourselves to be take piecemeal, it is
finished. Now if we are together… Yes, I said you cannot take PDP as it is and
APC as it is; but they are not all made of evil people.
“There are good people. I said PDP is leprous hand, APC is leprous
hand, but there are some clean fingers in them. So, let’s take those clean
fingers in them and graft the clean fingers in our own.
“That is the way to go and if we go that way, we will get there,
we will move together, and we will will move fast and we will move far,”
Obasanjo said.
