Gen. Buhari Should Avoid Obasanjo like a Plague - Senator Owie

Former Chief Whip of Senate, Senator Rowland Owie has warned Nigeria’s president-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to avoid former President, Olusegun Obasanjo like a plague if he intends to succeed in ruling Nigeria. 

He says Obasanjo is one bad leader that fights a government once he is not given a listening ear by the administration. He did it to Jonathan, he did it with MKO Abiola despite MKO not getting to the throne. 

See the Senator's press statement below; 

“To Buhari,  I thank God for you, but you must deliver on your promises and also build on what President Goodluck Jonathan did.  Above all, you must run far from Obasanjo. If he can’t control your government, he will fight you.

 He has done it to all former Presidents of Nigeria and even against MKO Abiola who was not sworn in.  Never discuss with Obasanjo unless you have at least two of your aides present.

 Half way into the tenure of President Jonathan,  Obasanjo started trouble making by naming presidential and vice-presidential candidates. First, it was Governor Sule Lamido as president and Governor Rotimi Amaechi as his deputy. A respectable Lamido, a founding father of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP while Obasanjo was in prison, was being urged to fight PDP.

 OBJ lured most PDP governors in the North into rebellion against PDP to destroy the platform that gave all of them relevance, including OBJ. The hate mood in the North for this election against Jonathan was such that, any candidate from the North would have won the election.

 The anger was that power must return to the North. Nigerians can see that rebellion against one’s own and betrayer of one’s party doesn’t pay.

 Gov. Aliyu Babangìda of Niger State, who led the rebellion against Jonathan and the PDP, lost his election to the Senate and also lost his state.”