After months of berating the administration of President
Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo
has declared his support for the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.).
Obasanjo, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic
Party, made his opinion known during an interview with the
Financial Times at the launch of his controversial
autobiography titled, ‘My Watch’, in Nairobi, Kenya.
Obasanjo said Buhari, who ruled Nigeria between December
1983 and August 1985, was aware of the challenges of
Nigeria today and was qualified to rule the country.
He said, “The circumstances he (Buhari) will be working
under if he wins the elections are different from the one he
worked under before, where he was both the executive and
the legislature – he knows that. He is smart enough. He is
educated enough. He’s experienced enough. Why shouldn’t
I support him?”
Obasanjo said he was confident that Buhari would be able
to effectively tackle corruption and insecurity.
The former President said Buhari would restore the morale
of the military which, he said, was needed in the fight
against terrorism.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan betrayed the armed
forces by allowing corruption to undermine their
operations.
He said, “It is a question of leadership – political and
military. I think you need to ask Jonathan how he let the
army go to this extent. Many things went wrong:
recruitment went wrong; training went wrong; morale went
down; motivation was not there; corruption was deeply
ingrained; andwelfare was bad.”
Obasanjo added that he was saddened by the rate at which
the nation’s resources were dwindling, adding that when he
left office, Nigeria had $45bn in its reserve but the
resources had been depleted by more than half despite the
increase in oil prices.
Reacting to the postponement of the elections by the
Independent National Electoral Commission for security
reasons and a better distribution of Permanent Voter Cards,
Obasanjo said he hoped the Federal Government was being
truthful.
He urged Jonathan to put the interest of the nation ahead of
his own ambition.
He said warned that manipulating the electoral process
could lead to a coup d’etat, adding that the May 29
handover date remained sacrosanct.
“I sincerely hope that the President is not going for broke
and saying ‘look dammit, it’s either I have it or nobody has
it’. I hope that we will not have a coup. I hope we can
avoid it,” he said.
http://www.punchng.com/news/obasanjo-endorses-buhari-warns-against-coup/

@OP, make the post edible pls!

I can never forget the terror we experienced under OBJ regime, I'd rather he go and make a critical soul seaRching about his life

IT'S OBVIOUS BUHARI IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED BY EVERYONE.
I'M JUST WAITING TO LAUGH ON MARCH 28.
GEJ WON'T ONLY BE VOTED OUT BUT WILL BE EMBARRASSED.


SAI BUHARI / PYO 2015

CHANGE !