Buhari In US: Obasanjo says President performed woefully during press conference

Inset: **Happier times: Obasanjo, left, chats with Buhari, then president-elect, after the 2015 elections (APC/AFP)**

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that President Buhari performed woefully during the press briefing with President Trump in the United States.

Buhari was in the United States to hold talks with the President Trump.

According to Premium Times, the former President said that Buhari undermined Nigeria's interest and missed an opportunity to sell himself as a good leader.

Obasanjo said this in a statement which he issued to debunk reports that he is supporting the President's second term agenda.

According to OBJ's spokesman, Kehinde Adeyemi, the former President said he still stands by the comment he made earlier in January.

Obasanjo, in an open letter, criticised Buhari for doing nothing to stop the Fulani herdsmen killings among many other issues.Obasanjo's full statement

It has come to the attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that some elements in the Muhammadu Buhari camp and or support group are desperate to secure a second term, fair or foul. In this desperation, everything is fair, including telling libelous lies against persons and institutions, instead of addressing the fundamental issues of statecraft and economic management.

In the last 24 hours the internet has been bombarded with deliberate falsehoods aimed at hoodwinking the unsuspecting Nigerians to believe that Obasanjo has now supported Buhari for his second term because of some perceived Buhari's 'superlative' performance in his encounter with Trump during his visit to the White House in Washington D. C.

In another breath, these blackmailers insinuated that Chief Obasanjo met with some Nigeria Labour Congress leaders in his house in Abuja on Workers' Day. What a pathetic fallacy! Chief Obasanjo never met any Labour man or woman on May 1, 2018 to make any supposed volte face to support Buhari. Furthermore, neither was Chief Obasanjo in Abuja on that date nor does he own a house in Abuja. Any time he visits Abuja, he usually stays in a Guest House or hotel.

For the record, Obasanjo has not and cannot endorse failure. His position remains as stated in his January 23rd, 2018 statement on the state of the nation. Chief Obasanjo sympathises with the plight of those campaigners and supporters of Buhari. He doesn't believe dishing out fake news that can only be believed by imbeciles will turn black into white.

Nigerians know that Chief Obasanjo has only spoken the truth about widening poverty, alienation and social disunity and near disintegration of the country through Buhari's incompetence. Obasanjo will continue to exercise his right to free speech and no amount of hate speech will assuage Nigerians who are in need of a brand new leadership. The mediocre performance of Buhari cannot be described by anybody as 'superlative' even by morons not the least President Obasanjo.

From the Buhari/Trump meeting, Chief Obasanjo only saw through three points: One, the US will continue to reduce purchase of crude oil from Nigeria and there is nothing Nigeria under Buhari can do about; two, the US will export agricultural products to Nigeria and Buhari's government will encourage that; and three - all the killings taking place in Nigeria by herdsmen are being done by expatriates trained by Gadaffi and no Nigerian is to blame and Buhari cannot do anything to stop it.

For whatever the meeting was worth, President Buhari again bungled another opportunity to self-redeem. No wonder President Trump ordered him in a rather condescending manner to go back home and stop the killings going on in Nigeria! We hope

Buhari In US: Obasanjo says President performed woefully during press conference

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