2019: Obasanjo has no moral right to decide who rules Nigerians – Orji Kalu

A former Abia State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has flayed former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for advising President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.

Kalu, who made the statement over the weekend in Dutse while on a state visit to Jigawa, told governor Alhaji Muhammed Badaru Abubakar that he is touring the country to sensitize Nigerians on the need to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to become president again come 2019.

His words: “People seem to have forgotten when former President Obasanjo was literally absent for about three years, travelling all over the world when he was president and then nobody told him not seek re-election.”

According to the former governor, “OBJ does not have the moral right to decide for Nigerians who becomes president even though when he was president, no one wrote letters advising him against seeking re-election.

“Why should he do so now? Kalu said Nigerians have the moral obligation to choose their leaders through the democratic process, advising them to go ahead and vote for President Buhari for another term while also voting for Muhammed Badaru as Jigawa state governor.

“There won’t be any presidential candidate I would support in 2019 other than President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Although Alhaji Sule Lamido happens to be my bosson friend and an aspirant for Nigeria’s president in the PDP , I have told him that I won’t vote for him against President Muhammadu Buhari”.

The Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Muhammed Badaru who expressed his excitement over the visit by the former Abia governor said his choice to project the re election of President Muhammadu Buhari is unprecedented.

Badaru who went down memory lane on how the APC government met a battered economy by the PDP said, “Jigawa people are better informed and educated on how we met the state treasury and economy and that is why no one can disillusion them at this moment,” he said.