‘Nigeria Now A Failed State’ – Obasanjo Blasts Buhari, APC Replies

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari accusing him of allowing the country to become a failed state under him.

He also lamented that the country has become more divided under Buhari.

Obasanjo claimed Nigeria needs to be rescued from the brink of collapse.

He said this while delivering a speech titled, ‘Moving Nigeria Away from Tipping Over’ at a consultative dialogue attended by representatives of Afenifere, Middle Belt Forum, Northern Elders Forum, Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo and Pan Niger Delta Forum.

The event was held in Abuja on Thursday.

Obasanjo also said the country is becoming a ‘basket case’ economically

“Old fault lines that were disappearing have opened up in greater fissures and with drums of hatred, disintegration and separation and accompanying choruses being heard loud and clear almost everywhere,” he warned.

Obasanjo further warned people beating drums of war and calling for secession, to remember that if Nigeria breaks into several nations, the citizens would still be neighbours and would need to interact with one another.

However, the statement from the former President has gotten a reply from APC’s Deputy spokesman, Yekini Nabena, who said Obasanjo lacked the qualities to criticize Buhari’s administration.

In a statement he signed, Nabena said Obasanjo and his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, midwifed most of the rots in Nigeria today, hence can’t chart a course for Nigeria.

Nabena challenged the former president to explain how his administration spent $16 billion on power without providing electricity.

He also asked that Atiku Abubakar give an account of privatisations under him while he was Vice President.

According to Nabena: “It is baffling that the same political actors that midwifed and institutionalised the national rot, corruption, impunity and erosion of our value systems are the same characters posing as voices on the way forward in our national life. How ironic!

Nabena added: “These political actors probably only listen to their own voices because Nigerians have long stopped taking them seriously, as they simply lack the antecedents and moral credentials to guide Nigeria and Nigerians to the path of prosperity and progress.