A former member of the House of Representatives, Usman Bugaje has faulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 election.
Bugaje, also a former Political Adviser to the presidency during the administration of Obasanjo, spoke in an interview on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today on Sunday night. The programme was monitored by POLITICS NIGERIA.
The former National Assembly member said he does not understand what objective criteria Obasanjo used to arrive at his decision to support Obi.
He warned that Nigerians should not just digest what the former president said without scrutinising Obasanjo’s record.
“His (Obasanjo’s) record doesn’t encourage me to take whatever he says objectively,” Bugaje said.
“I was in the National Assembly when he tried to extend his tenure by changing the constitution. We have to stand up to him in that respect.
“I won’t find him as a person to trust on things he says. He is free to say those things. What we need to do is to guide voters to make the right decision.
“We are at the precipice. We need a leadership that can pull us back from the precipice, a leader that can strengthen the institutions, by fostering more cohesion, a leadership that can build elite consensus around which direction the country could go.
“Part of the problem is that every part of the country is pulling in its own direction.
“We need a leadership that can unite us, that can focus on where the country should go in the next 10 or 20 years.
“We are in the 21st century, a very competitive century. The consensus is not there at present”.
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Obasanjo is a poisonous element in all ramifications. And, by the way which political clout does he possess. Including which election has Obasanjo won to qualify him as a veritable positive endorser of anybody in Nigerian political space.
Peter Obi IS AT LIBERTY TO HAVE ALL OF THE PORSONS HE COULD GET FROM THE Obasanjo GARB. IT CHANGES NOTHING IN THE NIGERAIN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE.