Former deputy national chairman (south) of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, says Bayo Onanuga, the presidential spokesperson, “pay back” for insulting former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In an interview on Nigeria Info FM, the PDP chieftain chided Onanuga for his comments against Obasanjo, noting that the former president was old enough to be his father.
“An old man who could be Bayo Onanuga’s father said something, and you took him on by blasting him right, left, and centre,” George said.
“Even if you want to react, the Yoruba culture does not allow that insult from him. Someday he would pay back, because there would be a day after, and that’s more important.
“He should be vigilant as he walks because it’s possible for him.”
Obasanjo, while speaking at the Chinua Achebe leadership forum at Yale University in the US on November 16, had said the 2023 general election was a “travesty”.
The former president said Nigeria’s failing state status is evident due to “widespread corruption, poor leadership, and immorality,” causing insecurity and underdevelopment.
He described the situation in Nigeria as chaotic under the “Baba-go-slow” and “Emilokan” reigns.
While responding to Obasanjo’s comments, Onanuga said the former president left many unresolved problems for the country, adding that he presided over the most fraudulent election in Nigeria’s history.
“The beneficiary of the sham election, Umaru Yar’Adua, admitted that the election was seriously flawed and, as Justice Muhammed Uwais’s panel recommended, worked towards electoral reforms,” Onanuga said.
“It is hypocrisy writ large when a man who presided over the worst election in Nigeria demands the sack of the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission. The only positive of the Obasanjo era was fiscal and monetary policy management buoyed by a consistent rise in crude oil prices throughout his eight-year tenure.
“The current economic crisis the All Progressives Congress administrations have been battling since 2015 is the product of the poor choices in economic management made by Obasanjo and the two successors from his party.”
