An All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) member,
Nasiru Danu, has said former president Olusegun Obasanjo as being unfair
in his assessment of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of
his inauguration as a member of the APC Technical Committee, at the
party’s national secretariat in Abuja yesterday, Danu said Obasanjo’s
thoughts on the re-election ambition of Buhari were his personal opinion
and not that of Nigerians.
He said although Obasanjo remains an
elder statesman, his assertions on the performance of President Buhari
were more political than anything else.
Obasanjo had, at the weekend, described
the Buhari administration as an irredeemable failure and asked Nigerians
not to “reinforce failure in the 2019 general elections.
“As I said, stop giving excuses; we met
challenges. If there were no challenges, then, we wouldn’t need you to
come. You came in because you knew there were challenges, and then (you
are) giving us an excuse that you have many challenges and that is why
you haven’t achieved results,” he said.
However, in his reaction, Danu said: “The
truth is everybody can have his opinion on an issue, but, to me, this
is a successful administration. Buhari never promised to be a miracle
worker. In three years the success of this administration with regard to
the economy and security are obvious.
“There is no nation that can progress or
have meaningful development with the past level of corruption. When does
somebody say he is a failure, failure in what? Are we talking about the
railways connecting the country, the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri or
Lagos-Kano rail lines, the Mambilla project and the second Niger bridge?
etc.
“Insecurity, compared to what we had
before, there are improvements. Before Buhari assumed office, we were
having attacks even in Abuja and Maiduguri, but you can see the
successes clearly.
“This is an election year, people are
entitled to their opinion. Obasanjo is an elder statesman and he is
entitled to his opinion. That is not the opinion of Nigerians,” he said.
Meanwhile, the APC Chairman in Ebonyi
State, Eze Nwachukwu Eze, has warned that changing the national and
state leadership of the ruling party will spell doom and disaster for
the party in the 2019 general elections.
Nwachukwu, who spoke to Daily Sun on the
telephone, while reacting to the controversies trailing the extension of
the tenure of executives, insisted there were possibilities that the
party would produce parallel executives at all levels.
He further warned that the spate of
litigations that would trail the congresses and the likelihood of the
party fielding two candidates for a particular position may threaten APC’s chance of winning any election in 2019.
Source: The Sun
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