Discomforting news for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election broke out from Olusegun Obasanjo’s Hilltop Mansion in Abeokuta on Friday evening, indicating that the outcome of the PDP governors who had gone there to plead for the President’s support was initially played down.
As it goes, Obasanjo didn't just explain to the governors his standing on national issues, but flatly refused to support Jonathan's re-election bid.
The five governors (Mallam Isa Yuguda of Bauchi, Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Liyel Imoke (Cross River) and Godswill Akpabio- (Akwa Ibom) had met with Obaanjo to beg him to stop verbally assaulting Jonathan and also to support Jonathan's reelection bid.
Vanguard newspaper says that had they been successful, they would have broadcasted it by now. Rather, the newspaper reports that a source has said Obasanjo has no inclination to support Jonathan, and he maintains his original stance, that Jonathan is running Nigeria to the ground.
The source said, although Obasanjo is disappointed in Jonathan, he decided to not make the governors the brunt of his temper by turning them away, “but the truth of the matter is that ‘Baba’ did not give them any promise of word of comfort throughout their stay in Abeokuta because he is very upset with most of them, who have betrayed him in many ways since he helped them to clinch power in 2007.
“He told them the truth as it is that Jonathan’s leadership had really hurt the image of Nigeria at home and abroad and that they themselves should help him to change course so as to help Nigeria and Nigerians out the doldrums.
“Obasanjo made it clear to the visitors that he was not just speaking out for the sake of bringing Jonathan or his government down but to draw his attention to the urgent need to rise up and fight the monsters of insecurity and monumental corruption that are fast eating away the fabric of the nationhood and making Nigeria a mockery before the international community."
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