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Hamza-al-Mustapha

By Emeka Ifeanyi

 Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasango has been lambasted over his recent comment wherein he labeled the present members of the National Assembly, NASS, as “bunch of corrupt people.”

Even while the ex-president was asked to shut up, he was also alleged to be the “father of corruption in Nigeria” as he could not use his position as president from 1999-2007 to correct most of the abnormities being witnessed in the country today.

Sounding this note of warning was no other person than Prince Chukwuemeka Uba, KSP, who is the National Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youth Foundation Nigeria, OYFN, just as he described Obasanjo as a one who should no longer be taken serious, recalling his former antecedents in the past.

Uba who spoke to journalists after the international conference to celebrate the golden jubilee of Beta Sigma Fraternity with the theme: “Entrepreneurship: The Driving wheel to sustainable economic development” in Nigeria held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja, at the weekend, wondered why the former president would be condemning the same institution he helped to destroy while he was the president.

“Chief Olusagun Obasanjo should just respect himself in terms of unnecessary statements he loves to make in the media. I don’t know if he is seeking relevance which he has none again following the kind of lifestyle he choose to live.

“How can he openly speak against the National Assembly, which he destroyed or is there anything he is not telling us, when it was the same National Assembly he bribed with huge sums of money while seeking to extend his constitutionally approved two terms when he was the president?

“The other time, he accused the immediate past President of the country Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, of releasing Major Hamza Al-Mustapha so that the later would head a team of youths being trained as snipers, to eliminate perceived enemies before the general elections in 2015, but till date, nothing like that was discovered and the former President has not found it worthy to apologize to Al-Mustapha.

Furthermore, the Ikemba Orlu pointed that “Obasanjo, during his tenure as the president made sure that the National Assembly was never stable, following the way he was inciting problems and leadership squabbles while he was busy doing whatever he likes and he is now accusing the present NASS members as corrupt people, forgetting that what he planted in 1999 has germinated”

He called on Nigerians to exercise patience in the economic quagmire being faced now, saying that a new leader will soon emerge, adding that the person may come from a yet to be registered party, since according to him “known political parties have disappointed all of us”.