The Presidency on Monday night said the administration of President Muhammad Buhari would not join issues with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comments on the Buhari administration.
Obasanjo had on Monday while addressing a group of youths who visited him in Abeokuta, Ogun State described the Buhari administration as a failure.
Obasanjo also asked the All Progressives Congress-led government to stop complaining about the challenges it met on ground.
He said: “What we have now is failure.
“Never you reinforce failure.
“Let failure be failure….
“Those of you who are in business, your business could have been better today if we have a competent and effective and performing government.”
However, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, who responded to Obasanjo’s comments in a telephone interview on Channels Television on Monday, said the assessment was not new.
Adesina said: “Already, the statement issued few months ago by the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, in response to the earlier criticism made against the government by Obasanjo had adequately addressed the issues raised.”
He maintained that the APC-led Federal Government would keep making reference to the failures of the past administration with a view to guiding against such mistakes in future.
According to Adesina, the Buhari administration has successfully tackled mismanagement of the nation’s economy as Nigeria now has more savings in its foreign reserve than ever before.
Obasanjo had earlier issued a 13-page statement criticising Buhari’s performance and concluded that Buhari should not seek re-election in 2019.
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