Odumakin tackles OBJ over comments on Jonathan A group, Oodua Development Initiative (ODI), has expressed its displeasure over former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment, scoring President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration as performing below average, saying the former president had no moral right to parade himself as navigator and social crusaders, adding that he should put stop to it. The group said this at a press conference addressed by its patron, Mr Yinka Odumakin, noting that the latest comment by Obasanjo on Jonathan’s administration was a continuation of his vendatta, which he said, had become his trademark. Speaking on Sunday, at the briefing attended by the group’s publicity secretary, Mr Ola Animashaun; Mr Jamiu Yusuf, Mr Gbola Bello, among others, Odumakin, who noted that there were indeed challenges facing the country and Jonathan’s government, declared that Obasanjo could not be the conscience of the nation when his antecedents were clearly known to Nigerians. “There is no doubt that by now, Nigerian citizens are familiar with the fact that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s comments and opinion are products of malice, vengeance and vendetta. it is not in the character of Chief Obasanjo to hold objective and patriot opinion. “How can one situate his past comments on Chief Obafemi Awolowo, late MKO Abiola, Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle, Prof. Sam Aluko, Chief Bola Ige and a host of others,” Odumakin queried. Odumakin, who is also the publicity secretary of a pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, said that Obasanjo for the eight years he spent in office as president of the country, failed to plant the nation’s seed of democracy on a solid ground. According to him, Obasanjo’s democratic credentials were nothing to write home about, saying he violated the constitution at will through impeachment of former Governor Joshua Dariye and Rasidi Ladoja, among others. Also, he recalled that Obasanjo mowed down communities, wondering how the former president had not become a ready candidate standing trial for gross human rights abuses before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Meanwhile, a Lagos-based group, Save Lagos Group(SLG) has told former Nigeria President,Chief Olusegun Obasanjo point blank that he lacks moral justification to criticise President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, over the current situation of the country, stressing that President Obasanjo laid a solid foundation for bad governance of the country during his eight years tenure of office. The group also absolved President Jonathan of the present woes of the country, stressing that the current woes did not emanate from cureent Jonathan-led administration but from the Obasanjo-led administration between 1999 and 2007. tribune.ng/…/22464-odumakin-tackles-obj-over…
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