Daniel Bwala, spokesman for Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, has alleged former President, Olusegun Obasanjo of using the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi to achieve aborted third term agenda.
The ex-service man on Sunday, January 1, 2023 anointed Peter Obi as presidential election candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The former president has recommended Obi to Nigerians ahead of the forthcoming polls, asking them not to be confused as per their choice of president.
Bwala noted that Obasanjo is “one man who believes his role also includes choosing and imposing presidents per time as if we run a monarchical system of government”.
He furthered that the elderstatesman sees himself as the only man with the monopolistic knowledge of how the country should be run.
“A cursory look at his letter released on this day, the 1st day of January 2023, one can’t help but draw a deduction of a man who believes so much in himself. His entire letter is riddled with me, my and I. Even when he made references to candidates, he assumed he is the source of their relevance and notoriety. First of all, history is replete with his bad decisions which time would not permit us to layout in this article, but suffice to say that his records and official acts were and still are antithetical to democratic ideals.”
He stressed that while the Army General has the constitutional right to choose his preferred candidate, he, however, lacks the right to foist his choice of presidential candidate on the Nigerian populace.
The spokesperson said,”One fact is clear, Nigerians would decide, and this they would do, not on the basis of a letter by a man seeking a third term by proxy.”
