The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop his repeated verbal attacks on the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan.
This was made known in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Lere Olayinka, in Ado-Ekiti.
“Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is no longer the president of Nigeria, he should be allowed to live a private life devoid of mudslinging from elder statesmen like Chief Obasanjo” the statement read.
Ex-President Obasanjo while delivering the 11th Convocation Lecture at the Benson Idahosa University, Benin City had been quoted to have said “performance of Jonathan while in office will haunt the people of the South-South region for a long time to come”.
Fayose however stressed that the South-South had already demonstrated their approval of Mr. Jonathan’s performance
while in office by voting overwhelmingly for him on March 28 despite the gang-up orchestrated by Obasanjo and his allies.
while in office by voting overwhelmingly for him on March 28 despite the gang-up orchestrated by Obasanjo and his allies.
“Most importantly, Jonathan’s performance as a democrat has been widely acknowledged locally and internationally, particularly by President Mohammadu Buhari, who on many occasions acknowledged the role he (Jonathan) played in midwifing a peaceful and successful transition programme, thereby averting the feared crisis in the country,” Fayose added.
“This is in contrast to Baba Obasanjo, who tried third term when he was about concluding his constitutional two terms"
He further said that Obasanjo might have attempted getting a fourth term if he had succeeded in his alleged third term agenda. "who knows whether he would have tried fourth term if he had succeeded with his third term agenda?” the statement added.
Fayose further asked Obasanjo to stop humiliating other Nigerians, emphasizing that “we are all stakeholders in the country Nigeria. It is wrong for any Nigerian no matter how highly placed to go about carrying himself around as the only honest lover of the country.”
“Nigerians know those involved in the Halliburton scandal" he added "and people who are yet to be cleared of their alleged complicity in a scam like Halliburton, lack moral rights to brand other people as corrupt.”
“People living in glass houses should avoid throwing stones,” he said.
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