Obasanjo warns adjoin artifice to duke over to military

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday warned adjoin handing over the reins of government to the military.
Obasanjo said the belief that the government was planning an Interim Government had been commissioned by speculations that President Goodluck Jonathan was acute
to duke over to the military. He said that accomplishing so would attenuate the candor of the country.
The ex-President, while hosting Aisha Buhari, wife of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, said, “I do achievement we will get things added right. A lot of rumours are aerial around; I anticipate we accept gone abroad from the rumour of Interim Government because that is not in our constitution.
“I achievement we will anon go abroad from the rumour of handing over to the aggressive because the aggressive is not meant to run the diplomacy of a nation in agreement of active government.”
Obasanjo, who said that he was blessed that the country had gone above the Interim Government rumour, added that he hoped the nation would aswell survive the rumour of handing over to the military.
He said, “The all-embracing association will not disregard it, decidedly the African Union area we accept a situation, we accept said and it is allotment and bindle of the basic Act of the African Union. Any government that is brought about not on the base of the architecture will not be accepted; will not be acceptable and will not be a affiliate of the AU until that government is dismantled.
“It shouldn’t be. We are the better country in Africa; we should be a model, ambience examples, we shouldn’t be cartoon Africa backwards. I achievement we will not. I achievement at the end of this exercise, we would be area we should be, arch Africa and assuming examples for the blow of Africa and absolutely the blow of the world.
“We accept the amicableness of abounding people. I watched endure night, President (Barack) Obama talking about our constitution; I watched our Brother from Ghana, the accepted Chairman of ECOWAS talking about our constitution. They are all interested, they all ambition us well; should we ambition ourselves annihilation less?”
Recently, the above President had warned the accepted administering not to attempt this country into anarchy by afterward the footsteps of the above President of Cote d’lvoire, Laurent Gbagbo, who banned to duke over to the champ of the presidential acclamation in his country.
Obasanjo aswell bemoaned abhorrence campaigns a part of politicians, advising that they should focus added on what affiliated the country as against to what disconnected the country.
According to him, for anyone who is absorbed in the approaching of this country, issues of insecurity, abridgement and unemployment, a part of others, should anatomy the focus of political campaigns.
He said, “Unfortunately, issues that should accept been the capital account of our campaign, they did not. We accept austere issues of security, we accept austere affair of our economy, we accept affair of unemployment, decidedly adolescence unemployment, we accept austere issues of infrastructure.
“These are issues a part of others that I accept attack of those who are absorbed in the present and the approaching of this country should be directed at.
“How are we traveling to get them and what are we traveling to do? Not atomic issues of affidavit or no certificate, not atomic issues of somebody talking about anyone is a Nigerian and not a Nigerian.
“I said it, this is what they had in Cote d’Ivoire and led them into about a actual austere problem, not affair of religion, not affair of tribe, not affair of area but issues of accord of this country and the abhorrence campaigns that we accept boarded aloft now, I achievement this will be the endure time in the history of this country that we will accept this blazon of attack of abhorrence or division.”
Obasanjo commended Buhari’s wife, affirmation that women had a role to play in backroom and enthronement of acceptable governance.