Why I Am Sure Atiku Is Better Than Buhari – Obasanjo

Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has again passed a vote of confidence on Atiku Abubakar’s presidential candidacy against the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari from the All Progressive’s Congress, APC.

According to Obasanjo, the former Vice president running under the Peoples Democratic Party, is two times better than Buhari, whom he described as weak and incompetent to paddle the ship of the nation for another four years.

Obasanjo made this fresh assertion in an interview session with BBC Pidgin.

He also admitted that Atiku is not totally clean but opined that corruption has been largely condoned by the Buhari-led government.

“Atiku is not a messiah; he is not a saint. Fortunately, he has not claimed to be. He has not claimed a fake sanctimoniousness. He came here. He acknowledged his past misdeeds and showed remorse,” Obasanjo said.

“I am a believer and a Christian as such and the teaching of God in my own religion is to forgive so that you can be forgiven. In fact, it goes further that if you do not forgive, you have no right to expect God’s forgiveness.

“I’m a sinner and I want God to forgive me sins. So, if anybody who has offended me comes to ask for forgiveness, I must forgive him. That’s number one.

“Number two, the choice that we have for the immediate in Nigerian situation today and the immediate is 2019 is
between the candidate of party APC and PDP. The other minor parties will line behind or not sufficiently relevant.

“So, if APC puts down Buhari and PDP puts down Atiku, and from what I know of Buhari and what you know, what he has done and shown is utter incompetence, nepotism, condones evil and misconduct, including corruption.

“The weakness of the body, mind and the totality of Buhari, compared with Atiku, I believe Atiku will perform two times better than Buhari.

“Now, you can steal the whole of Nigeria and if you belong to APC, you are safe. Corruption is not only stealing money; nepotism is a form of corruption.”