Obasanjo Is Jealous Because Buhari Beat Him To A New Record In The Nation’s Development Process – Garba Shehu

The Presidency added that Obasanjo’s tenure as President represented the dark days of Nigeria’s democracy due to a slew of assaults on the constitution..

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has taken a swipe at former president, Olusegun Obasanjo after he said that the Buhari-led administration has moved Nigeria from ‘frying pan to fire’ and from mountain top to valley.

In his letter released on January 1, 2023, the former Nigerian leader stated that the last seven and a half years ”have no doubt been eventful and stressful years for many Nigerians.”

His letter in part reads;

“I am constrained to write this letter to all Nigerians especially young Nigerians, friends of Nigeria globally as well as our development partners because of the gravity, responsibility and implications of the collective decision Nigerians, both young and old, will be making within the next two months.

The last seven and a half years have no doubt been eventful and stressful years for many Nigerians. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley.

Our leaders have done their best, but their best had turned out to be not the best for Nigeria and Nigerians at home and abroad. For most Nigerians, it was hell on earth.

Those of us who are alive should thank God for His mercies, brace ourselves for the remaining few months of this administration and pray and work very hard for an immediate better future – future of liberation, restoration and great hope and expectation.”

In a statement released on Monday evening, the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, opined that Obasanjo is ”jealous” of President Buhari.



According to Garba, President Buhari is ahead of Obasanjo in all fields of national development as leader of Nigeria. The Presidency added that Obasanjo’s tenure as President represented the “dark days of Nigeria’s democracy due to a slew of assaults on the constitution.”

His Statement Reads;

”Former President Obasanjo is so well known to all that no one needs to describe who he is.

But, four things we will like to say:

One is that he will not stop attacking President Muhammadu Buhari because the former President won’t stop being jealous of anyone who beats him to a new record in the nation’s development process.

President Buhari is ahead of Chief Obasanjo in all fields of national development and to do that is cardinal sin to Obasanjo whose hallucinations tell him that he is the best ever to lead Nigeria and there will never be another one better than him.

President Buhari just completed the world-class edifice that is the Second Niger Bridge after three decades of failed promises. It is now awaiting commissioning.

Obasanjo laid the sod for the bridge in his first term as elected President and work never started.

When he sought re-election for his second term in office, he returned to the site to turn the sod for the bridge the second time. When the Obi of Onitsha, forthright and scholarly, reminded him that he had done this in the past, Obasanjo told the foremost Southeast traditional ruler that he was a liar, in the full presence of the Chiefs and Oracles in his palace.

Obasanjo lied to the Southeast to get their votes. President Buhari didn’t get their votes but built the bridge because he believed it is the right thing to do.

Two, President Buhari had been bagging awards and encomiums for trying to do that which the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria says a leader should do: serve one, or a maximum of two terms and go.

President Buhari has been stating and restating that he will supervise a better election than the one that brought him to office and to leave as and when due.

Having tried tenure elongation and failed, Obasanjo’s fictitious mind must be telling him that he is the one under attack.

But he is not on President Buhari’s radar because experience has shown, especially lately in West Africa where there have been at least three successful coups and many other failed attempts, that third term or tenure elongation is a recipe for political instability.

Furthermore, the totality of African leaders appointed President Buhari the Anti-Corruption Champion of the continent.

You can’t be an anti-corruption champion if “you meddled and bent the rules,” carrying the putrid responsibility of what happened to national assets in the name of privatization as documented by the Nigerian Senate in 2011.

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