Is Buhari too close to OBJ?

chika ebuzor

October 7, 2015 7:51 AM

He had his eight years and by indirect remote control, two years of late President Umaru Yar’Adua was Obasanjo’s.

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A former minister of education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has criticised President Buhari for being too close to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

According to Vanguard Newspapers, Shekarau wondered “why the President was now romancing former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who, according to him, ruled the country for eight of Peoples Democratic Party’s 16 years of administering Nigeria.”

Shekarau said “Buhari has said that he has come to right the wrongs of 16-year mess by the PDP. So, I said, ‘Mr. President you are welcome, but reminded that 10 of those 16 years belong to ex-President Obasanjo.”

Adding that ‘’He had his eight years and by indirect remote control, two years of late President Umaru Yar’Adua was Obasanjo’s. And Obasanjo was the one who produced Yar’Adua and Jonathan. Until three years ago when they fell out (Obasanjo and Jonathan), Obasanjo was in charge."

“Obasanjo today belongs to those who are chief advisers to President Muhammadu Buhari. Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai, was one of the major hit men of Obasanjo, my former governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, was one of the boys of Obasanjo as well as former Governors Bukola Saraki, Goje and all the rest of them," Shekarau said.

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