The Nigerian Government has reacted to
allegations by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the government of
President Muhammadu Buhari wants to accuse him of a crime on him and
detain him.
PoliticsNGR gathered that in a statement issued on
Friday, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, described Obasanjo’s
allegation as a “concoction of a mind worried by guilt”.
The statement reads:
“This
administration will never engage in a frame-up of innocent citizens.
That is neither in the character of President Muhammadu Buhari nor in
that of his administration. Only the guilty should be worried. To
paraphrase an African proverb, a man who has no wife cannot lose an
in-law to the cold hands of death.
“The administration is also
strongly committed to the tenets of democracy, including freedom of
speech and the right to dissent. But we understand that those who, in
their time, were untethered to those principles would find it hard to
believe.
“Apparently, the impact of this proclamation was too
much to bear by those who, through acts of omission or commission,
helped to deepen the wounds inflicted by the blow of injustice that
followed an election that was widely acclaimed to be free, fair and
credible, hence they felt the need for a red herring that will distract
the nation.
“Added to that is the frustration brought about by
the fact that the contraption they have so much hyped as a freeway to
power has failed to gain traction. Faced with this double tragedy, even
the strongest of men may begin to succumb to a figment of their
imagination. They may start crying wolf where there is none.”
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