President of West Africa Bar Association, (WABA), Femi Falana had carpeted ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over his call on Nigerians to brace up for hard times this year.
Falana who spoke to Daily Sun in Lagos said Obasanjo inflicted unmitigated poverty on Nigerians during his eight-years tenure despite of the unprecedented oil boom and unparallel revenue growth.
"Inspite of the oil boom, which his government enjoyed Obasanjo maximized poverty throughout the length and breadth of this country for eight years.
"His neo-liberal and anti-people economic policies maximized poverty through fake privatization, fraudulent oil block allocations, illegal duty waiver and outright looting of treasury."
"It was before our very eyes that Obasanjo and his cronies engaged in primitive accumulation of wealth at the expense of the people," he said.
The chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Rule of Law Committee asked the former president to stop insulting the intelligence of Nigerians with his dubious and hypocritical call. "Since he could not manage the oil windfall to improve the lot of our people for eight years, he should stop his gratuitous insults on Nigerians," he said.
Falana reasoned that instead of asking the people to brace up for hard times, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should have persuaded public officers to shed their excess monetary allocations, which had been taking a toll on the economy, especially with the price of crude oil dropping to $40 per barrel.
The WABA president tasked Obasanjo to justify the allocation of a whopping N104billion to service the National Assembly under the 2009 budget viz-a-viz his call on Nigerians to brace up for hard times.
He expressed cynicism about the economic policy of President Umaru Yar'Adua, describing it as a continuation of Obasanjo's voodoo economic policy repackaged as seven-point agenda.

Falana has balls of steel, as demonstrated by this true description of Obasanjo as being Nigeria's most prolific treasury looter till date.

obj has refused to bahave like an old man to get the respect he deserve but since he has choose to make himself monkey, we are ready to offer him the bananas that he so much like to eat.

   

OBJ is stating the obvious so why all the negativity?

Even developed nations are bracing up for hard times ahead so what is bad about his frank comments.

Anyone that believes that OBJ did not improve on the nation's economy in 8 years is a joker.

Unless fraudsters are the ones complaining because EFCC under Ridabu messed up their businesses.

Lol

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Obasanjo mocks nigeria and actually feels very confident that he is untouchable

OBJ is stating the obvious so why all the negativity?

Even developed nations are bracing up for hard times ahead so what is bad about his frank comments.

Anyone that believes that OBJ did not improve on the nation's economy in 8 years is a joker.

Unless fraudsters are the ones complaining because EFCC under Ridabu messed up their businesses.

@Afam,
who among nigerians is more fraudulent than OBJ himself?
a man who fraudulently sold all govt properties to himslef and friends. a man who fraudulently imposed yar adua and other rulers on us in his april fraudulent polls. what could be more frauulent than all the illegal contracts issued and paid for only in the realities of the pages of nigerians newspapers?
what could be more fraudulent than his third term agenda? what is more fraudulent than his making himself as the sole benefactor of the chairman board of trustees of pdp? what could be more fraudulent than the act of making himslef the oil minister while he was the president of nigeria?
what could be more fraudulent than the killing of two communities as well as the killing of bole ige without a trace? what could be more fraudulent than the denial of people's electorial rights to vote and be voted for eg was the case of the gubernitorial elections in Imo state in the april polls?
if the truth is worth telling, the name obj means fraud in nigeria from that day that he probed the leadership of abacha while he overlooked that of the other ex-presidents.