Probe Obasanjo, We don’t Want Him Around You – Associates Tell Buhari

Political associates of Presi­dent Muhammadu Buhari have asked him to extend his ongoing probe to the administration of former President Oluse­gun Obasanjo.
They are not also comfort­able with Obasanjo’s increasing romance with the president and have therefore initiated moves to scuttle Obasanjo’s perceived hijack of the Buhari Presidency.





Investigation by The AU­THORITY revealed that the pres­ident’s allies are not happy with Obasanjo’s growing closeness to Buhari, considering that he ei­ther caused or contributed large­ly to most of the problems facing the country.
According to them, even though Obasanjo claimed that he was fighting corruption dur­ing his eight-year tenure, the cur­rent rot in the polity was largely caused by him.
Consequently, they have ap­pealed to Buhari to distance him­self from Obasanjo and extend the current probe to his administra­tion’s privatisation exercise and funding of power projects.
A top member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) disclosed the growing discomfort in the party over Obasanjo’s per­ceived influence on President Bu­hari to The AUTHORITY.
Between 1976 and 1979, Bu­hari served as Secretary (Minis­ter) of Petroleum Resources in a military regime headed by Oba­sanjo. Both men are retired Gen­erals.
The AUTHORITY checks re­vealed that top APC leaders are worried that aside the fact that both men are Army Generals, Obasanjo’s “last minute” support for Buhari in the build-up to the last general elections may work in favour of Obasanjo.
Said the chieftain: “We don’t want Obasanjo near President Buhari. The same Obasanjo who on three occasions stopped Buha­ri from becoming president, now wants to play political godfather,” exclaiming, “God forbid!”
The AUTHORITY gathered that APC chieftains opposed to Obasanjo’s return to political reckoning have commissioned agents to unearth documents on financial transactions capable of embarrassing the former presi­dent.