Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has denied an online
report quoting him as saying that he had warned President Muhammadu
Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.
The report, which was credited to him through his former Chief
Press Secretary, Alex Nwokedi, in an on-line publication, Post
Nigeria, dated September 3, 2016, claiming that Obasanjo had
warned President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in
2019.
But Obasanjo has described the report as “completely false and
destructive by those behind it.”
The former President, in a statement issued by his media aide,
Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta on Sunday, said there has been no
communication between him and Nwokedi in the last three years, and
wondered why any news would be attributed to him, as published by
the on-line publication.
The statement read in part, “My belief is that democracy allows
for anybody including President Buhari for that matter to contest
any election and it is the prerogative rights of Nigerians to vote
or not to vote for them.
“I have not communicated with Alex in the last three years, so
how could a story be credited to me when I did not authorise such
or communicated with him in the last three years?”
Obasanjo said he could not even stop any of his children not to
seek elective post, because that was part of the freedom of
democracy.
It read further, “I condemn in the highest manner the story and
those behind it. And for those behind it, they are simply enemies
of democracy and freedom of expression.”
Obasanjo said that he was still committed to the peace and
progress of the country’s democratic development.
He assured Nigerians that with patience, the current democratic
experience would bring relief to the masses.
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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has denied an online
report quoting him as saying that he had warned President Muhammadu
Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.
The report, which was credited to him through his former Chief
Press Secretary, Alex Nwokedi, in an on-line publication, Post
Nigeria, dated September 3, 2016, claiming that Obasanjo had
warned President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in
2019.
But Obasanjo has described the report as “completely false and
destructive by those behind it.”
The former President, in a statement issued by his media aide,
Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta on Sunday, said there has been no
communication between him and Nwokedi in the last three years, and
wondered why any news would be attributed to him, as published by
the on-line publication.
The statement read in part, “My belief is that democracy allows
for anybody including President Buhari for that matter to contest
any election and it is the prerogative rights of Nigerians to vote
or not to vote for them.
“I have not communicated with Alex in the last three years, so
how could a story be credited to me when I did not authorise such
or communicated with him in the last three years?”
Obasanjo said he could not even stop any of his children not to
seek elective post, because that was part of the freedom of
democracy.
It read further, “I condemn in the highest manner the story and
those behind it. And for those behind it, they are simply enemies
of democracy and freedom of expression.”
Obasanjo said that he was still committed to the peace and
progress of the country’s democratic development.
He assured Nigerians that with patience, the current democratic
experience would bring relief to the masses.
Copyright PUNCH.
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–Obasanjo appeared first from online sources and was reposted by the community on Welcome to 9jalegal –
Nigeria’s Leading Legal Information and Services Portal.
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