Olusegun Obasanjo
The Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF) has disclosed that former
president, Olusegun Obasanjo may withdraw his support for the PDP
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar before the 2019 elections.
Secretary-General of the forum, Anthony Sani told Independent on Sunday;
“Former President Obasanjo is a factor in national politics
having governed the country under both military and democracy. His
commitment to one united Nigeria cannot be taken away from him, but
whether such attributes can translate into electoral value is in doubt.
More so that Obasanjo has been a product beyond himself.
“When the late Murtala Muhammed was assassinated in 1976, the
military hierarchy at that time asked Obasanjo to take over as Head of
State.
“It was not his efforts that got him the position. Also in
1999, the retired Generals and Northern leaders went and brought him out
and made him the president. These are not his personal efforts. So,
Obasanjo is a product of forces beyond him.”
He pointed out that despite Obasanjo's endorsement, the Atiku camp
is not rejoicing yet because the former could change his mind at any
moment.
“As to whether Nigerians will pander to the former president’s
endorsement of the presidential candidate of the main opposition party
is also in doubt, precisely because of his inconsistency that does not
accommodate conviction and vision expected of a statesman of his status.
“Consider the former president tore his party card of PDP and
wrote off both APC and PDP as unserviceable. He then formed a
nonpartisan Coalition Movement which he later transmuted to a political
party called ADC against his earlier ‘new year resolution’ not to be
partisan.
“Former President Obasanjo said God would not forgive him if he
endorsed his former VP for president, only for him to now leave his ADC
and endorse Atiku.
“I believe not only Nigerians but even Atiku himself cannot
bask in the glow of the endorsement by Obasanjo out of the fear that the
manifest inconsistency can make him change his mind before the
elections,” he said.
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