The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has called on former President Olusegun Obasanjo to accord President Muhammadu Buhari the same level of respect he gets from the president.
Adesina made this known in an interview published by Sunday Vanguard.
The presidential aide said this while reacting to Obasanjo’s constant criticism of the Buhari administration.
Adesina said, “Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, as part of his criticisms of President Buhari, recently said the President should be careful.
“I don’t know how he is going to be careful. But how do you explain the President’s soft mindedness to a former leader that plotted to unseat him from power and now came back to say.
“‘I’m his boss and I will not stop to criticize him?’
“The President, in his victory speech, told his supporters not to gloat. He said ‘this victory is enough for you’. So, that should just suffice. Even to the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the government will not gloat because the President says victory is enough.”
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He added, “Like the President said in his birthday message to former President Olusegun Obasanjo that he has contributed immensely to the development of Nigeria, yes, and he has always been his boss and that he will respect him.
“President Obasanjo wrote his letter in January last year. A week or two after that letter, we had a Council of State meeting and you saw the deference the President gave to him.
“Any time former President Obasanjo pressed the button indicating he had a contribution to make, you needed to see how the President referred to him.
“For life, President Buhari would always respect former President Obasanjo. But then, respect is reciprocal. If the younger one gives that kind of respect, the onus is on you as a senior person to reciprocate.”
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