Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that President
Muhammadu Buhari has the right to seek for re-election in 2019, if he wishes
to.
This is as he condemned an online report (not Ripples) which
claimed that he had warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election
in 2019. He described those behind the allegation as enemies of democracy and
freedom of expression.But Obasanjo, reacting in a statement issued by his media
aide, Kehinde Akinyemi in Abeokuta on Sunday, said he “condemns in the highest
manner, the story and those behind it.”
The former President denied having any communication of any
kind with Nwokedi in the last three years and was surprised that such news as
published by the on-line publication could be attributed to him.
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“My belief is that democracy allows for anybody including
President Buhari for that matter to contest any election and it is the
prerogative rights of Nigerians to vote or not to vote for them. I have not
communicated with Alex in the last three years, so how could a story be
credited to me when I did not authorize such or communicated with him in the
last three years?”
“I condemn in the
highest manner the story and those behind it. And for those behind it, they are
simply enemies of democracy and freedom of expression,” part of Obasanjo’s
statement.
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