Obasanjo slams Buhari: Says instead of milk and honey, Nigeria now flowing with bitterness, sadness

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has blamed bad leadership for the crises in Nigeria, stressing that the country is far from what God wants it to be.

The two-term President (May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2007), also urged that the language of communication in the country should be more civilised.

Chief Obasanjo, who was speaking on Thursday, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State while being presented with a book, ‘The Man, The General and The President,’ by the book’s author, Femmy Carrena, said that God created Nigeria to be a land flowing with milk and honey but that the country is, instead, now flowing with bitterness and sadness.

A former military Head of State of Nigeria from 1976 to 1979, Chief Obasanjo, who supported the Buhari presidency into power, but has since become one of its harshest critics, said “My prayer is that all of us will have something to contribute to making this country what God has created it to be – a land flowing with milk and honey.

“Right now, it is a land flowing with bitterness and sadness, that is not what God wants this country to be.”

The internationally recognised statesman also said that “We must change the narrative. We must talk to ourselves in the civilised language.

“There is nowhere you go in this country that you will not see geniuses in any section of the country. So, why should we look down on ourselves?”

The Buhari presidency has been grappling with, especially security and economic crises, including the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, banditry in the North West, herdsmen and farmers conflicts in the North Central and Southern parts of the country, separatist agitations in the South West and South East, militancy in the South South and more recently, unknown gunmen in the South East.

The latest storm, for the administration, has been the president’s tweet that was deleted by Twitter based on social media users’ complaints that it had genocidal undertones.