$16b; Tension Rises as Pres.Buhari Attacks, Plans to Probe Obadanjo’s Admin.

President Muhammadu has attacked the Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and promised to probe his administration over the alleged fifteen billion dollars ($15b) spent on electricity project during his tenure in office.

Buhari & Obasanjo

President Buhari who made this comment at the villa in Abuja while receiving members of his 2019 re-election support organisation led by Hammeed Ali, the Nigerian Customs comptroller General.

Buhari in his speech insisted that past Nigerian leaders failed the nation, but praises the late dictator Sani Abacha. He, however, indicates some of the achievements of the late dictator.

Meanwhile, the ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in his reply signed by Mr.Akin Osuntokun, a director of the strategic communication of the coalition for Nigerian movement founded by the ex-president accused Buhari of playing a double standard politics with statistic, which makes him more incompetent to lead Nigerians.

According to ex-president, Is it not an insult to the exalted office he holds to join the chorus of beer parlour gossips, how can a president who has all the information at his beck and call bring himself too low? Obasanjo 

As the two elephant in the Nigerian politics begins to engage in a battle of supremacy and heating up the polity, Nigerians has warned the elites that enough is enough on bad governance.

Obasanjo and Buhari have had a long history dating back to their days in the Army with Buhari serving as Minister of Petroleum when Obasanjo was head of state.
The former President also supported President Buhari in the 2015 presidential elections and visited the President more than once in the Presidential Villa in during the first two years of his administration.

But the relationship between both men gradually turned sour and took a turn for the worse in January this year when Obasanjo released a long memo against Buhari govt and formation of the coalition force to remove Buhari comes 2019.