Again, Obj attacks President Goodluck Jonathan; Says 'When the head is rotten, the whole body is useless'

A week after he rated President Goodluck Jonathan’s
performance as ‘below average’, ex-President
Olusegun Obasanjo has again launched a verbal
missile at the present administration, saying its actions
put Nigeria’s democracy at great risk.
Speaking at a book launch in honor of the pioneer
chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and
other related Offenses Commission, ICPC, Justice
Mustapha Akanbi (retd.) at the Sheraton Hotels and
Towers, Abuja on Wednesday, Obasanjo, who was
Chairman of the occasion advised Mr. Jonathan to
stop encouraging “verbal violence, which may not
physically hurt, but has ways of degenerating into
physical violence”.
The former president, who warned that the greatest
undoing of any administration would be the attempt to
destroy opposition of all sorts, which invariably means
destroying democracy, said: “Management of
democracy without resorting to brute force and
dictatorial tendencies must be cultivated”.
He continued: “As a leader, you must not deliberately
do evil or condone evil. You should know that you will
one day give account to God; you may cover up here,
but before God, there is no cover up”.
Mr. Obasanjo also took on the administration in other
areas such as the handling of the ravaging Boko
Haram insurgency, corruption, the economy and youth
unemployment.
According to him, Boko Haram is not out to “frustrate
anyone’s political efforts” and lamented that it took
President Jonathan years to fully grasp the motive of
the insurgents.
On corruption, perceived to have grown to
unimaginable proportions under the present
dispensation, the ex-Nigerian leader simply said:
“When the head is rotten, the whole body is useless”.
On state of the economy, Chief Obasanjo said Nigeria
would continue to sink deeper and that the federal
government is not telling Nigerians the whole truth
about the state of the economy.
According to him, “the economy is in doldrums, if not
in reverse”.
As of the time of publishing this report, the Presidency
is yet to respond to Mr. Obasanjo’s latest statement.