National
leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has described the
letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu
Buhari advising him not to seek re-election in 2019 as ”a political game.”
Mr. Tinubu in a report published
by the Punch, said this in an interview with journalists when he visited
Governor Rochas Okorocha at the Government House in Owerri, on Friday.
Mr. Tinubu said if the former
president meant well, ”he would have met with the President to address the
issues raised in the letter.”
The 13-page letter titled “the way
out: A clarion call for Coalition for Nigeria”, asked the president not to re-
run in 2019 as a result of his failure in governance.
“I believe that would have been the
conversation between retired military heads of state. They have unfettered
access to each other either through the Council of State or any other means; he
could see the current president privately.
“They both had the same
background. He (Obasanjo) was also his senior in the army. I think Obasanjo was
playing politics with the public letter. That is all I see. They also met at
the African Union meeting too. He has a way of discussing with the president
any time he wants.”
On the coalition championed by the
former president, Mr. Tinubu refused making any comment saying it was not yet
time to speak on the matter.
“The appropriate time is not now
for response on the Coalition Movement but we are in a democracy, we are in a
country that is a signatory to the Charter of the United Nations which
guarantees free movement, free association and free speech.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Tinubu said he was
in Owerri to see his “good friend” Governor Rochas Okorocha, before going down
to Anambra to pay his respects to the late former vice president, Alex Ekwueme.
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