Obasanjo Backs Atiku To Re-position Nigeria If Elected President

Obasanjo Stands By His Affirmation For Atiku

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again expressed hope and confidence in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar that he will reposition Nigeria.

Naija News recall that Atiku and his running mate Peter Obi had yesterday graced a debate tagged the candidate

Obasanjo spoke at the 2019 Island Club Quarterly Business Lecture, where the former vice president delivered a lecture titled, “My vision to get Nigeria Working again”.

In his remark, Obasanjo believed that Atiku had the experience, the capacity, and passion to move the country forward.

According to him, his support for Atiku should no longer look strange to Nigerians, despite what he said and wrote about him in the past.

Recall that Obasanjo and Atiku had formerly, about six months ago exchanged critics at each other with the former saying ‘If I support Atiku for anything, God will not forgive me.”

He, however, said the PDP candidate had demonstrated what was expected of a committed and sincere leader by owing up to his past mistakes and showing remorse.

Obasanjo added that Atiku had not only apologized to his political party and the nation but also apologized to him for the past disagreements he made as his deputy.

He said that Atiku was not infallible like every other human being and that he, (Obasanjo) would be playing God by not forgiving the former vice president.

Obasanjo: “I have been called names because of my position on Atiku Abubakar, the Waziri Adamawa. “Everything I have said as far as I have knowledge of Atiku, I have not retracted and I stand firmly by them because they are to the best of my knowledge true.

“And neither has what I have said and written about Buhari been controverted, if anything, they have been confirmed and proved beyond any shadow of doubt. “But Atiku has done things which are absolutely imperative for a leader to be followed and believed. “First, know who you are and present yourself as you are – a human being in blood and flesh and susceptible to human mistakes and human frailties.

“Don’t cover up with a sanctimonious veneer of bogus integrity, incorruptibility, uprightness, goodness and false figures and statistics, all of which are contrived to deceive, to cheat, to plunder and to destroy.

“Atiku never claimed to be a saint and I never described him as such. I will never so describe any human being alive let alone calling him a Messiah.

“On an occasion in the past when I said that someone was not a Messiah, some Nigerians out of bad “belle” were up in arms.

“For me, as a Christian, the only Messiah I know and have is Jesus Christ and even then, the man aspect of Him was imperfect while the divine aspect of Him was perfectly messianic.”