{"id":21386,"date":"2019-01-23T22:06:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21386"},"modified":"2019-01-23T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:06:51","slug":"why-nigerians-should-not-trust-buhari-obasanjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21386","title":{"rendered":"Why Nigerians Should not Trust Buhari &#8211; Obasanjo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hide-if-no-js\"><a id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=21386&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1&amp;width=753&amp;height=537\" aria-describedby=\"set-post-thumbnail-desc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 \" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Okowa-2019-Gubernatorial-Campaign-online-banner-ad-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"814\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Former President\u00a0 Olusegun Obasanjo has said those in the present administration will not only go to jail, they will go to hell if their corrupt acts are exposed.<\/p>\n<p>He also explained why he forgave an ex-Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in an interview with the BBC Yoruba monitored by our correspondents.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing Atiku with President Muhammadu Buhari, Obasanjo said his former deputy, though not a messiah, was far better than the incumbent President.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWhat I am saying is that where we are today; our present situation, if you look at those who are there today and our boss (Buhari), I insist that Atiku will do better than them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a prophecy. Those in government today, if we expose them, all of them will enter hell; they will not only go to jail.\u00a0 They will go to hell. Whoever that God does not expose his sins to the public is the person whose secret is kept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, however, said he was not privy to the plans of Atiku if he became Nigeria\u2019s next President.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI did not say he (Atiku) will behave like Jesus.\u00a0 I did not say he will behave like Prophet Muhammed, but he will do better, in fact twice better than\u00a0 what we have at present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo said the President\u2019s performance in the area of the economy was worse than his assessment of his (Buhari) knowledge of the economy in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-President said Atiku was not an angel but he had atoned for his sins when he came to him in Abeokuta and sought forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=17745&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=180\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThose who talked about what I said about Atiku, what about what I said about Buhari? His performance is even worse than what I thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said Buhari did not know anything about economy. Have you not seen it? I said he did not know about diplomatic relations, have you not seen it?<\/p>\n<p>While accusing Buhari of nepotism, Obasanjo said the President gave priorities to his ethnic group when appointing people into sensitive positions.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo added, \u201cLook at what is happening, the person that is leading us says he cannot appoint any other tribes into the posts he considers sensitive because he does not trust them.\u00a0 If he cannot trust my tribe and your tribe what is the benefit? And he still wants my tribe and your tribe to vote for him. So, he can ask us to vote for him but he cannot trust us to be appointed into sensitive positions. What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t trust us, how do you want me to trust you? If you trust me and I misbehave replace me with another person.\u00a0 But if only your maternal and paternal relatives are the only people you can appoint because they are the only people you can trust\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Nigeria, where we have tribes numbering about 500,\u00a0 you now said you could not trust some people. That is what we are saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo also berated Buhari\u2019s economic policies, saying \u201cLook at our economy, is it the way it should be? Our economy can never develop if foreign investors do not come to invest in the economy . But, as it is, they are not coming into the country and they will never come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the activities of\u00a0 Boko Haram, Obasanjo lamented that the insurgents were deadlier than they were before the present administration.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Former President\u00a0 Olusegun Obasanjo has said those in the present administration will not only go to jail, they will go to hell if their corrupt acts are exposed. He also explained why he forgave an ex-Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in an interview with the BBC Yoruba monitored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-21386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-olusegun-obasanjo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/OBASANJO.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5yW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21389,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions\/21389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}