A former Chief Whip of the Senate and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie has told President Muhammadu Buhari to stop going back to how he was overthrown in 1985 and focus on his government now.
Owie said this in a statement stating that Buhari should be grateful to God and rather than going on and on about how he was overthrown he should focus on the problems of now.
The President who revealed last week how he was originally overthrown by Babangida is still thought to have lingering feelings about the incident, feelings that Owie has urged him to discard.
Owie was also left unimpressed with Buhari’s refusal to Jonathan during the commissioning of the railway line even though the project was commenced under Jonathan.
He said, “I urge President Buhari to face the job for which he was elected by Nigerians and stop chasing shadows. He should know that among those who worked for his success in the 2015 general election were many Nigerians whose parents, friends, well wishers were unjustly imprisoned by Buhari’s regime of 1984.
“They all supported him in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015, because the only thing that helps any human community to move forward and develop is forgiveness and letting bygone be bygone.
“For Buhari to be talking about issues of 1984 when God has given him victory in a democratic election, which by the antecedents of his first coming, did not, by human standard, deserve, he ought to be daily grateful to God, his party that gave him ticket and Nigerians that voted for him.”