The Presidency has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo that terrorism took root underneath his watch as president of Nigeria.
Particular Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Mr Sunday Dare, stated this on his verified X account on Sunday, including that Obasanjo was not in the proper place to criticise Tinubu over the worsening safety scenario within the nation.
That is coming following Obasanjo’s remark that President Tinubu ought to search international assist if he’s unable to handle the nation’s safety challenges.
The previous president referred to as for Nigeria to subcontract its inner safety to international governments just isn’t an act of statesmanship.
The presidency, whereas blasting Obasanjo stated that earlier than the previous President recommends surrendering the nation’s sovereignty to international powers, he ought to mirror on what he allegedly didn’t do when terrorists first started organising underneath his watch.
“This administration is not going to be distracted by selective amnesia wrapped in elder-statesmanship, nor will it permit those that midwifed Nigeria’s early safety failures to rewrite historical past.
“Current feedback by a former President and some recurring presidential aspirants making an attempt to color the Tinubu administration as ‘unable to guard Nigerians’ aren’t merely hypocritical however ignoble. They ignore the arduous reality: Nigeria is dealing with terrorists, all of them, by each definition, be they worldwide, regional or native.
“But the very people who appeared away when these threats first sprouted now need to sit in judgment. Nigerians know higher.
“The suggestion that Nigeria ought to successfully subcontract its inner safety to international governments just isn’t statesmanship; it’s capitulation. Earlier than recommending give up, the previous President ought to mirror on what he didn’t do when these terrorists first started organising underneath his watch,” Dare wrote.
