Hehehe...wahala...Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has come under the hammer of the umbrella body of Ijaw youths identified as Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, IYC, for allegedly castigating the immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
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Obasanjo was reported to have stated while delivering a convocation lecture at Benson Idahosa University, Benin, Edo State, that the perceived failure of Jonathan in office would haunt the people of South-South zone for a long time.
The Ijaw youths frowned at the comment, noting that the statement was reckless, baseless and a deliberate
effort by Obasanjo to dent former President Jonathan’s towering image in the international community.
Speaking through a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesman, Mr. Eric Omare, the council described Obasanjo’s comment as uncharitable and a calculated attempt to tarnish the reputation of one of their referred illustrious sons, whose accomplishments in office were unparalleled in the nation’s political history.
According to the statement, “The IYC considers the statement as reckless, baseless and a deliberate effort by Obasanjo to dent former President Jonathan’s towering image in the international community.
“As usual, Obasanjo does not want anybody in Nigeria to be greater than he.
“The IYC makes bold to state that former President Jonathan’s five years in office were far better than Obasanjo’s eight years in office. If Obasanjo has forgotten, we wish to remind him that because of his reckless impunity in rigging elections, late President Umaru Yar’Adua on assumption of office had zero regard in the international community.
“However, President Jonathan has redeemedthis badly battered image by reforming the electoral system as
elections in Nigeria today are substantially free, fair and credible with the consequent goodwill it has generated for Nigeria in the international community.
“President Muhammadu Buhari would not have been receiving the highest respect before President Barrack Obama in the United States now if not for former President Jonathan’s efforts in reforming the electoral system in Nigeria.”
The IYC furthered opined that if there was any region that should be haunted by the performance of one of
their sons who once reigned as President, it is the South West region as former President Obasanjo’s performance in office was abysmal.
Continuing, the group stated that the South-West was completely exonerated from any blame since they totally rejected Obasanjo in 1999 in view of their fore-knowledge that nothing good could come out of Obasanjo, who was a former Head of State.
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