The caucus on Wednesday said the ex-President’s statement was a clear vindication of its earlier position on the lopsided nature of Buhari’s government.
Leader of the caucus, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, while speaking to journalists in Abuja, said the lawmakers had warned against the danger of “the nepotism in the administration but unfortunately many Nigerians looked the other way.”
He said, “What former President Obasanjo said is what we had said long ago. No one should be surprised over the shape of the political appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“To be fair to him, the President made himself clear during his state visit to the United States of America, with his now unfortunate theory of 95 per cent and five per cent reward for support. The whole thing has come to bear negatively on the entire country.”
In a related development, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna-Central), urged Nigerians to bear with Obasanjo on his attack on the Presidency.
He said the people had jubilated when the ex-President attacked the National Assembly.
His Facebook post on Wednesday read, “Baba fired missiles at the National Assembly and called its members unarmed robbers; then, you laughed. Baba fired missiles at the Villa and called its members names, now you are crying.”
Also, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, who spoke through his Twitter handle on Wednesday, decried the high spate of impunity in Nigeria in the last three years.
His tweets read in part, “Where there is impunity, there cannot be unity. In the past three years, Nigeria has sunk into barbarism; not because of the thousands of death from killer herdsmen, but because of the fact that no one has been arrested, tried and sentenced or executed for these deaths.”
