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Simon Shango, former publicity secretary of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), has slammed ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over his recent attack on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

At a press conference in Abeokuta, Ogun state, on Sunday, Obasanjo had compared the Buhari government to that Sani Abacha.

The former NPN scribe said Obasanjo has no dignity to be a patriot and and an elder statesman.

He asked Obasanjo to desist from the habit of “spreading falsehoods and half-truths”.

“Who is an elder statesman? Should an Elder statesman conduct himself in public with dignity? Should an elder statesman continue to throw spanners in the wheels of progress to advance his selfish cause?” he asked.

“The above question is for discerning Nigerians to answer as regards the recent outburst by no other than the self-serving and all righteous Olusegun Obasanjo titled “Points for Concern and Action”.

“Olusegun Obasanjo in his characteristics manner made so many allusions as regards the state of affairs in the country. He cleverly tried to depict a picture of despair and with no solution in sight. While it is understandable that his sympathy is towards his former enemy turned friend, Atiku Abubakar, with whom they caused considerable damage to Nigeria in the eight years they held sway, he nonetheless failed woefully.

“It is my considered opinion that Olusegun Obasanjo lacks every moral standing to contribute to the debate about Nigeria because in truth, his actions and inaction while he held sway as a military head of state and also as an elected president contributed a great deal to the disintegration of Nigeria that he claimed in his tirade.

“I want to assume that Olusegun Obasanjo did not take out time to read the epistle before taking credit for the by-line. He probably was too much in haste to cast aspersion on the personality of President Muhammadu Buhari to attract public sympathy.”