Activist-lawyer Femi Falana (SAN)
has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter as a clarion call to
President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a lengthy letter, Obasanjo had
asked President Buhari to perish the idea of returning to power in 2019,
outright telling him not to contest in the presidential election.
Falana advised the President to
act immediately against the influence of corrupt cabal.
According to him, the recent
killings and kidnappings had eroded Buhari’s achievements in fight against
insurgency.
Falana in a statement released on
Tuesday night said: “President Olusegun Obasanjo’s intervention is a vivid
expression of the frustration of the Nigerian people with the Buhari
administration.
“The statement is a clarion call
on President Buhari to remove the incompetent and corrupt cabal of power
mongers that has hijacked political power from him. Through sheer nepotism and
cronism, the regime has lost the massive goodwill that heralded it to power.
“The success recorded in the
fight against insurgency in the northeast zone has been eroded in the wave of
kidnapping and reckless killing of unarmed Nigerians by AK47-bearing herdsmen.
“The success of the fight against
corruption and impunity has been rubished by the inability of the regime to
remove corrupt public officers.
“President Obasanjo’s challenge
has been taken up by many Nigerians who have already formed a coalition of
genuine progressive forces to liberate Nigeria from internal colonialism and
imperialist control.”
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