By Abidemi Samuel
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The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Communication and Orientation, Sunday Dare, has fired back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent comment describing President Tinubu as ‘baba-go-slow.’ Obasanjo made the remark while delivering a keynote address at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut, USA
Dare insisted that Obasanjo’s presidency was marred by corruption, and he has lost the moral right to condemn any government. “Former President Obasanjo is a man with a tremendous capacity for mischief, and Nigerians know it,” Dare wrote in a lengthy post on X. “His journey along the path of hallucinations has never been in doubt. So is his descent into muddling facts, forgetting that he ran a presidency on record as the most corrupt.
Dare also claimed that democracy suffered greatly under Obasanjo’s watch, citing his “murderous rage for an ill-fated 3rd term.” He added that successive administrations struggled to clean up the mess Obasanjo left behind, which President Tinubu is now making progress with.
The Special Adviser called on Obasanjo to apologize to Nigerians for not laying the foundational infrastructure the country needed to advance. “The Yoruba proverb, ‘A o ki n wo ariwo oja, eniti a anba na oja ni a n wo,’ is instructive here,” Dare said. “This administration will stay focused on bringing relief to Nigerians. Obasanjo’s remarks reflect the infantilist nature of market noise. President Tinubu will stay the course in seeing through the reforms he has instituted for a better Nigeria.”
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