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Former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo has
accused the country’s president Muhammadu
Buhari of planning to rig the presidential election
holding next month because of his “mad
desperation” to win.
“From available intelligence, we have heard of
how Buhari and his party are going about his own
self-succession project,” Obasanjo said in a
statement made public on Sunday.
“They have started recruiting collation officers
who are already awarding results based on their
projects to actualise the perpetuation agenda in
which the people will not matter and the votes
will not count. ”
The Nigerian government is yet to respond to
Obasanjo’s claims.
Obasanjo and Buhari, both former military heads
of state in the country, were allies in the run-up
to the 2015 polls that brought in the latter into
power.
But their relationship went sour in 2018 with
Obasanjo labelling Buhari incompetent and
accusing him of nepotism.
To his credit, the current Nigerian president has
maintained that he’s interested in having a free
and fair election regardless of whether he wins or
not.
“2019 Elections need not be do or die affair, and
we should not approach that eventuality in a
democracy with trepidation and mortal fear,”
Buhari said in a New Year message.
He reiterated the same stand during his town hall
meeting on Kadaria Ahmed’s The Candidates last
Wednesday.
Criticisms aplenty
Buhari rode into power in 2015 on the wings of
populist promises of remodelling the economy,
fighting biting insecurity, especially in northeast
Nigeria and rein in the reign of corruption that has
blighted the country for decades.
But critics like the former president said Buhari’s
government has performed way below
expectations.
In December, the former Nigerian leader insisted
his former ally must be voted out, noting that he
cannot be allowed to continue to lead Africa’s
biggest democracy.
Obasanjo has made no secret of his preference for
major opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar – his
vice president between 1999 and 2007 – who he
once accused of being corrupt. The two made up
last after years of ugly spat.
In a statement by a media aide in December,
Obasanjo insisted that “only a fool will sit on the
fence or be neutral when his or her country is
being destroyed with incompetence, corruption,
lack of focus, insecurity, nepotism, brazen
impunity and denial of the obvious.”
His latest statement doubled down on those
claims. He likened Buhari to a former Nigerian
military ruler Sani Abacha, who sought to
perpetuate himself in office before his death.
“What is happening under Buhari’s watch can be
likened to what we witnessed under Gen. Sani
Abacha in many ways,” Obasanjo said.
“When Abacha decided that he must install
himself as Nigerian President by all means and at
all costs, he went for broke and surrounded
himself with hatchet men who on his order and in
his interest and at high costs to Nigeria and
Nigerians maimed, tortured and killed for Abacha.
“Buhari has started on the same path in mad
desperation.”
Electoral Law
Although President Buhari has insisted that the
reason for not signing an amendment made to the
Nigerian electoral law last year was because the
final draft came to him when the elections were
very close, Obasanjo said the reasons were
sinister.
He said not signing the law will make the
president’s plan to rig the election easier.
“It is the sole reason he has blatantly refused to
sign the revised Electoral Reform Bill into law,”
Obasanjo claimed.
“His henchmen are working round the clock in
cahoots with security and election officials to
perfect their plan by computing results right from
the ward to local government, state and national
levels to allot him what will look like a landslide
victory irrespective of the true situation for a
candidate who might have carried out by proxy
presidential debate and campaigns.”
Source:
guardian.ng/news/buhari-in-mad-
desperation-to-rig-poll-says-obasanjo/

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