2019 Election! Don’t Seek For Re-Election Obasanjo Tells Buhari

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has warned President
Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.
The former president told Buhari that he has underperformed and he should
not allow Nigerians to remove him the way his predecessor, former president
Goodluck Jonathan was voted out.
Obasanjo gave the warning in a 13-page open letter he wrote to the president
on Tuesday.
In the letter titled: The Way Out: A Clarion Call For Coalition For Nigeria
Movement, Obasanjo said: “The situation that made Nigerians to vote
massively to get my brother Jonathan off the horse is playing itself out again.
First, I thought I knew the point where President Buhari is weak and I spoke
and wrote about it even before Nigerians voted for him and I also did vote for
him because at that time it was a matter of “any option but Jonathan” (aobj).
But my letter to President Jonathan titled: “Before It Is Too Late” was meant
for him to act before it was too late. He ignored it and it was too late for him
and those who goaded him into ignoring the voice of caution. I know that
praise-singers and hired attackers may be raised up against me for verbal or
even physical attack but if I can withstand undeserved imprisonment and was
ready to shed my blood by standing for Nigeria,
I will consider no sacrifice too great to make for the good of Nigeria at any
time.No human leader is expected to be personally strong or self-sufficient in
all aspects of governance.
“I knew President Buhari before he became President and said that he is weak
in the knowledge and understanding of the economy but I thought that he
could make use of good Nigerians in that area that could help.
Although, I know that you cannot give what you don’t have and that economy
does not obey military order. You have to give it what it takes in the short-,
medium- and long-term. Then, it would move. I know his weakness in
understanding and playing in the foreign affairs sector and again, there are
many Nigerians that could be used in that area as well.
They have knowledge and experience that could be deployed for the good of
Nigeria. There were serious allegations of round-tripping against some inner
caucus of the Presidency which would seem to have been condoned. I wonder
if such actions do not amount to corruption and financial crime, then what is
it? Culture of condonation and turning blind eye will cover up rather than clean
up. And going to justice must be with clean hands.”