Former president, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo has given President Goodluck Jonathan an abysmal report sheet
on his governance, rating the president's performance as “below
average”.
Obasanjo who was speaking at the
ongoing Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State, titled
‘Defining a legacy,’ added that security is the greatest danger Nigeria
is currently facing.
When Obasanjo was asked to rate the present government of Jonathan, he
answered, “His performance is below average. I will not accept
responsibility for his performance. There is nobody that gets such a
position without being helped.”
The former president also said he deserved credit for helping an
individual from a minority tribe become Nigeria’s President. He said he
"Rather than take blame for bringing Jonathan to power, I should be
taking credit.”
Obasanjo said, “The biggest problem we have in Nigeria is that we have regional leaders, but no national leader.
“I have always believed that our problem as a country is that at independence we did not have a true leader.”
“Yar’Adua gave me concrete evidence that he was healthy.”
Meanwhile, the Presidency on Friday said a statement credited to
Obasanjo that President Goodluck Jonathan’s performance is below average
was “not true and in error.”
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin
Okupe, described Obasanjo’s statement as untrue and baseless.
“If indeed former President Obasanjo said that, that statement was in
error because no government since independence has done close to 50 per
cent of what this administration has done in less than four years,”
Okupe said.
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