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Ex House Speaker Tells Buhari To Beware Of OBJ Advice
Ghali Na’Abba, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has explained to Vanguard in his recent interview why President Muhammadu Buhari should be careful with Olusegun Obasanjo’s advice.
Speaking about the performance of the former president while in office, Na’Abba said that Obasanjo played a big role “weakening the legislature”. He claimed OBJ wanted to install “puppets” on certain positions, which along with other actions finally “culminated in weakening the institution”.
When asked to advice President Buhari regarding his “closeness to Obasanjo”, the former official said:
“I obviously would not want to come between Buhari and Obasanjo. They knew each other in the military. Buhari was variously a minister and military secretary under him as well as a military governor. So Buhari knows him better than I do. So he knows how to handle him. However, in 1984, when Buhari became head of state, he said his administration was an offshoot of the Obasanjo administration.
“I was, therefore, baffled when, in 1999, Obasanjo, having become the president, became determined to embarrass Buhari over his headship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). He instituted probe after probe to find faults with Buhari. Unfortunately for him he did not find anything. Indeed, he personally harassed and interrogated Buhari. I was in the government, so I know all these. He went on to disband the PTF in spite of the important infrastructural projects being undertaken by the body, against the advice of some of us.
“The nation lost so much to this singular misadventure in monetary terms that I personally called into question Obasanjo’s patriotic credentials. The other day, I watched on television Obasanjo’s emissary handing over documents to Buhari on power infrastructure developed by his think tank, an action that made me laugh profusely. How could someone who spent $16b on power without achieving anything when he was President bring a proposal on that matter to anybody! While I would not advise Buhari to repay Obasanjo in his own coins, I would advocate that he should not allow him to be distracting him.”
