He spoke at a book Launch in honour of the pioneer chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, (ICPC) Mustapha Akanbi, in Abuja. Obasanjo, the Chairman of the occasion, said the president should stop encouraging ‘verbal violence which may not physically hurt but has ways of degenerating into physical violence’.
This is how Premium Times further reported Obasanjo’s recent attack on Jonathan:
“Management of democracy without resorting to brute force and dictatorial tendencies must be cultivated,” the former President said.
“As a leader, you must not deliberately do evil or condone evil. You should know that you will one day give account to God, you may cover up here, but before God, there is no cover up.”
The former president also spoke at length on the President’s handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, corruption, the economy and youth unemployment.
On insecurity, Mr. Obasanjo said Boko Haram is not out to “frustrate anyone’s political efforts” and lamented that it took Mr. Jonathan the years to fully understand the menace.
On corruption, Mr. Obasanjo said, “when the head is rotten, the whole body is useless”
On the economy, he said Nigeria would continue to sink deeper and that what Nigerians are told about the state of the economy “is not truly what the economy is”.
“The economy is in doldrums, if not in reverse,” he said.
The latest verbal attack comes a week after the former President rated Jonathan’s administration low, saying: “I rate this current administration below average,”
The presidency last Sunday however replied Obasanjo through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, who said that President Jonathan’s achievement was far beyond that of any administration in the country since Nigeria gained independence
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