Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has told former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop attacking immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in the media because he doesn’t deserve mudslinging from elder statesmen.
During the 11th Convocation Lecture of the Benson Idahosa University (BIU) Benin, Edo State, Obasanjo said “Performance of Jonathan while in office will hunt the people of the South-south region for a long time to come.”
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said “Most importantly, Jonathan’s performance as a democrat has been widely acknowledged locally and internationally, particularly by President Mohammadu Buhari, who on many occasions acknowledged the role he (Jonathan) played in midwiving a peaceful and successful transition programme, thereby averting the feared crisis in the country.
“This is in contrast to Baba Obasanjo, who tried third term when he was about concluding his constitutional two terms. And who knows whether he would have tried fourth term if he had succeeded with his third term agenda?
“The reality is, assuming but not conceding that Jonathan performed below expectation, democratic governance that he established in Nigeria is more important than any other performance that Obasanjo alluded to,” the governor said.
“We are all stakeholders in the country Nigeria. It is wrong for any Nigerian no matter how highly placed to go about carrying himself around as the only honest and lover of the country.”
“Since Baba Obasanjo has openly destroyed his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership card, he is free to go about seeking relevance in the All Progressives Congress (APC) without running anyone down.”