…Says Buhari can’t satisfy all
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance so far is not ‘disappointing’
“President Buhari, I have said, has not disappointed me because the areas which we knew he was strong, he has performed fairly well,” Obasanjo told BBC’s Focus on Africa, singling out Buhari’s scorecard in the fight against corruption and the Boko Haram insurgency.
But the former leader conceded that not “everyone will be satisfied” with Buhari’s anti-corruption war.
While appreciable progress has also been recorded in the fight against Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, former president Obasanjo said the fight against the jihadists cannot be totally won until the government addresses the root causes of the insurgency.
“The remote causes of Boko Haram, which [are] under-development in the area, lack of employment opportunities, lack of education [and] lack of infrastructure have to be addressed,” the former president said.
In spite of his vote of confidence in President Buhari, Obasanjo, who was one of Buhari’s supporters in the build-up to the 2015 election, insisted he would only support the current leader for re-election in 2019, should Buhari seek it, after he must have reviewed his performance towards the end of his current four-year term.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Obasanjo’s former deputy, Atiku Abubakar had also renewed his hope of becoming Nigeria’s president.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Atiku contested with President Muhammadu Buhari for the APC’s presidential ticket but lost out.
Obasanjo who has never hidden his resentment for Atiku was quoted as in an interview as saying ‘God won’t have forgiven me till this day if I had supported Atiku’s emergence as President.’
TheNewsGuru.com reports that President Buhari’s Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Jumai Alhassan recently declared her open support for Atiku by calling her ‘Our President in 2019’.
The Minister also blatantly noted that if President Muhammadu Buhari should contest the 2019 presidential poll, she would support Atiku instead.