FOR the first time since he bowed out of power in May 29, 2007, former president Olusegun Obasanjo took time off to deliver a hard knock on the government of Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, as he berated the Electoral Reform process by the government.

An earlier criticism of the Electoral Reform by the former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar drew the ire of the Yar’Adua government which engaged him in verbal warfare for days.

Obasanjo, who spoke to a battery of media correspondents at the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano on Friday said he was not aware that any Electoral Reform process was on in Nigeria.

The former president simply implied that the Electoral Reform initiative anchored by Justice Muhammed Uwais, whose committee made recommendations to the Federal Government will end up with little or no effect.

The Initiative by the Yar’Adua government to reform the Nigeria’s electoral system has been dogged by heated controversies even amid biting criticisms against the initiative from cross-sections of Nigerians.

When correspondents asked for his comment on the electoral reform by the government of president Yar’Adua, Obasanjo simply said, “I was not aware of any Electoral Reform.”

The chairman PDP Board of Trustees who now seems to be coming all out from his cocoon to lend voice on national political issues had earlier taken a similar approach in dealing a blow against his former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on his reported attempt to return to the fold of the ruling party.

Obasanjo, on invitation by the governor, Air Vice Marshall Muritala Nyako, had travelled to Adamawa State where he told the state cabinet members and political stakeholders in PDP that Atiku begged him on several occasions when seeking his assistance in facilitating his return to the ruling party.

Although Obasanjo, according to reports, denied ever speaking against Atiku in Yola, the full text of his unedited remarks was, however, reproduced by a northern based daily which also carried his remarks against Atiku.

There have been speculations that both Obasanjo and his successor, whom he visibly struggled hard to install as president, are no longer seeing eye-to-eye.

Obasanjo, it was learnt, has been making several complaints against President Yar’Adua on conscious attempt by his government to either reverse or run down initiatives and policies by his past government.

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May God continue to put enmity between these two men until they take themselves out.

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may God help nigeria and nigerians - AMEN