Mr Ayodele Fayose, the former governor of Ekiti State has queried the unusal silence of former president Olusegun Obasanjo over recent happenings in the country bothering on corruption and and insecurity.
Fayose said Obasanjo was either tired or now afraid to continue in his criticism of alleged corruption and insecurity in the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The former governor said, “With the level of corruption and insecurity that we are seeing in Nigeria under this APC government, former President Obasanjo is curiously silent. And it was because of alleged corruption and insecurity that Obasanjo teamed up with others to foist Buhari on Nigeria.
“Isn’t Obasanjo’s silence worrisome? It is either Baba is tired, timid, afraid or he is no longer the Obasanjo that we used to know. Will he keep silent while the entire country is being looted away and Nigerians anywhere in the country can’t sleep with their two eyes closed?” Fayose queried.
The former governor said, “With the level of corruption and
Obasanjo, who served as both military head of state and president between 1976 and 2007, had in several open letters deemed Buhari as a weak and Ill-prepared president.
But the former president has maintained silence since July 2019 when he said in an open letter to Buhari that Nigeria had been consumed by violence and ethnic divisions since he became president.
