Osun State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the resignation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a dramatic move that would shock only those whose interest has been served by his tragic years in government.
A statement issued by the party’s director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi which copy was made available to LEADERSHIP in Osogbo yesterday, stated that Obasanjo had emerged as the worst leader from the Yoruba land in a century.
Accordinhg to the statement: “Obasanjo’s resignation as chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees may be shocking to those who he served successfully. But to that entire heritage he ruined in his uninspiring and to a large extent catastrophic lordship over Nigeria, Obasanjo’s exit is one dramatically cynic act in the theatre of the absurd.
“Rtd General Olusegun Obasanjo is no longer practically relevant to anybody any more than what calamity his military and civilian presidency had been to Nigeria. This man did more harm than good to Nigeria in a very awfully cynical way”, it added.
Oyatomi further noted, “His first coming in 1976 led Nigeria into the tragedy of the Shagari era. Then, when he was again manipulated into government in 1999, Nigeria suffered atrophy in practically every department of governance, and today, Nigeria is reaping the thorns Obasanjo sowed in this country. A man’s worth is judged by the effects of his activities.
Only those who have immorally, unethically and corruptly profited from Obasanjo’s rulership of Nigeria will hold him in high esteem.
“As for the Yoruba nation, Obasanjo was an unmitigated calamity. He left us half a century backward than he met Yoruba land. Apart from Yoruba people, other Nigerians are worse-off today than they were before Obasanjo came to power both after 1979 and 2007,” he noted.
Continuing, the statement stressed, “The man told us he was going to fight corruption, but he left Nigeria more corrupt than he met it. He pretended he was nurturing democracy for Nigeria’s future but today, what he gave us as democracy is worse than kleptocracy; which is a mentally diseased form of government in which those in government has an uncontrolled desire to steal things.