Former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s claim that a revolution is imminent in the country is still receiving flaks, as former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Dalhatu Attahiru Bafarawa, has asked the authorities to invite the former president for questioning Obasanjo, was the mastermind behind the myriads of problems the polity is witnessing.
Bafarawa said that if the President Goodluck Jonathan administration wants to be taken seriously, it should pull in the former president for questioning over his stewardship for the eight years he was at the helm of affairs in this country.
In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP SUNDAY, Alhaji Bafarawa, who governed Sokoto state on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), said, “He was the one who brought the problem that retarded the growth of democracy in Nigeria. Whatever problem we have in this country, most especially from 1999 to date, it was brought by former President Obasanjo.”
Bafarawa traced the root of most of the problems the former president bequeathed the country to his inability to actualize his third term project.
He stated: ‘Because of his personal ambition which was not fulfilled, he brought the problem of forcing leaders against the people’s wish. The bulk of the problem of leadership in this country was brought by him. He brought indiscipline in the running of the affairs of the political parties. Obasanjo turned things upside down in the political parties by bringing military attitude into the party system.
‘The party leadership had to be chosen by him and that also goes to the governors. Whoever becomes the governor has to produce his own party chairman; the president has to have his own national chairman.