Obasanjo: “Only Wicked, Unpatriotic Bad Citizens Will Vote For Atiku, Tinubu”

By Gideon Njoku

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has slammed Nigerians who would vote for the Presidential Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar or that of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, in the oncoming Presidential election.

Standing on his earlier endorsement of the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, Obasanjo said that at his age, God would punish him if he sees evil and ignores it.

The only Nigerians who would vote Atiku or Tinubu, the former President said, are wicked, unpatriotic and bad citizens.

He reiterated his reason for supporting Obi. He said the LP candidate “possesses good character, which his fellow contestants lack.”

Obasanjo who in a January 1, 2023, letter to Nigerians, with an emphasis on the youths,  endorsed Obi, spoke on Thursday at an interactive session organised by the Experiential Leadership in Africa (TEL-Africa) in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo:  “I will be punished by God if I know what is right and I did not put it where it should be.

“I take character, I take track record, I take vision and I take what you see in this man as a child of God.”

He said he knows the major candidates,  and can say a bit about them.

Obasanjo: “Why should you, as a Nigerian, vote for somebody with the character, the reputation, the life of which you do not want your own children to be?

“It is either you are wicked, you are unpatriotic or you are really, really a bad citizen of this country and then if this is who you are, what do you want God to do with you, and that is the way I see it.”

The Presidential election will be held of February 25, 2023.