By Adesina Soyooye
The Presidency has warned former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comments on the State of the Nation.
The warning came from the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina who also accused Obasanjo of being behind the “current upheavals in the country by his actions and inactions.”
In an article titled: “Nigeria’s Unity And All The Iberiberism” where he chided Nigerians who want the disintegration of Nigeria, Adesina said: “The sabre-rattling about Nigeria’s unity and the possibility of disintegration has got to the point of iberiberism. Some people have no other business than doomsday predictions of a crumbled, collapsed Nigeria, as if they actually fast and prayer for that eventuality.”
But Adesina said: “Some fathers of the land will not fold their hands and see Nigeria go down.” One of them, he said, is President Muhammadu Buhari, who as a young officer, fought the 30 month civil war for the unity of Nigeria, and has said he will not be around and watch Nigeria go down.
Adesina: “And he (Buhari) has said it: We will not be around and watch Nigeria go down. Never. We will rather speak to insurrectionists in the language they understand.”
Adesina said even Obasanjo has warned against the disintegration of Nigeria, but wants him to show that in his thoughts and language, accusing Obasanjo of contributing to the upheavals in the country.
Adesina: “And what of Olusegun Obasanjo, a civil war hero. Despite all that he has contributed to the current upheavals by his actions and inactions, words and bile, he says it is idiotic to wish Nigeria disintegration now. Good. But let us put our money where our mouth is. Let Baba mind his thoughts and his language.”
Obasanjo was one of those who, in 2015, backed then candidate Major General Muhammadu Buhari against the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the Presidential Election. But no sooner did Buhari come to power than the two of them fell apart. Obasanjo has been criticising the Buhari Government just as he criticised the Presidents Ibrahim Babangida, Musa Yar’Adua and the Goodluck Jonathan Governments.
