Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s recommendations last week for what the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, should do in governing a new Nigeria, have been greeted with repugnance in some quarters.
The ex-president through his think-tank examined critical areas of the economy and submitted a review to Buhari.
Reacting to this development, a former member of the National Assembly, Rowland Owie, has described ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s think-tank report as a document of blackmail for the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, The Sun reports.
In a statement issued in Abuja, Owie, asked: “How can Obasanjo be preparing a blueprint for Buhari? A Bini parable says, “How can an impotent man get medicine for his brother, who suffers weak erection”?
According to the Niger Delta ex-senator, “Obasanjo will tell the world that the solutions he prescribed for fixing Nigeria were ignored”.
Ovie added that the incoming Buhari administration should be wary of the ex-president.
He said: “I just read Obasanjo think-tank has submitted a blueprint to Buhari. Blue what?
“I am shocked that great Nigerians of the likes of Prof. Akin Mabogunje, Dr. Idika Kalu and Dr. Christopher Kolade were involved. That Obasanjo is linked to the blue-print, it will be a document of blackmail to Buhari very soon.
“Wonders will never end! How can Obasanjo who allegedly wasted eight years in government pursuing perceived enemies, and tried to ruin the legislative and judiciary arms of government in Nigeria; wasted $16 billion on power and not a single kilowatt of energy was produced, destroyed Aladja Steel, Itakpe Steel, Ajaokuta Steel, NITEL, just to mention a few FGN parastatals, now begin to advise Buhari?
“How can Obasanjo, whose government received, in one year, a revenue equivalent of the total revenue that IBB regime received in eight years, yet, nothing to show for it, be handing over blue-print to the in-coming administration?
“While there are great legacies left behind by IBB, but Nigerians can’t find any useful legacies by a government that received the highest revenue, since the amalgamation of Nigeria.
“The legacies left behind by Obasanjo are allegedly hate, divisiveness, Zaki- Ibiam and Odi destruction, impunity in government business and the business of the PDP that was put together by well-meaning people, including my humble self, when he, Obasanjo, was in prison,” Sen. Owie said.
Meanwhile, an investigation by Vanguard recently indicates that there are plans to dismiss the security groups in charge of oil pipelines and waterways by the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari.
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