The Patriotic Youth Front of Nigeria (PYFN) has vehemently opposed the imposition of the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate on Nigerian youths.
Following the former president’s recent endorsement of Peter Obi, the group claimed Obasanjo is unfit to advise Nigerian youths.
The ex-president had in an open letter to young Nigerians on Sunday, urged the youths to vote for Peter Obi whom he described as his “mentee.”
But PYFN in a press statement issued on Tuesday, December 3, by its president, Maxwell Ogar, said that
“Obasanjo’s hands are not clean which makes him unfit to advise the Nigerian youth on whom to vote for president.”
The group described the former president as one of the precursors of Nigeria’s ongoing challenges – socio-economic, security, and political” who is attempting to rewrite history and beatify himself “as the hero of Nigeria’s eventual triumph when in reality the former president is not.
It maintained that “Obasanjo’s endorsement of Peter Obi is rather a disservice to the upcoming national politician instead of being a boost because there is ample evidence that whatever this erstwhile civilian dictator lays his hands upon turns to dust.
His endorsement of the OBIdient brand has consequently doomed the Peter Obi candidacy.
Ogar said:
“We find it necessary to call out former President Obasanjo for his double standard and attempt to scam Nigerians as to his true identity.
“The same Obasanjo, who ceremonially shredded his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) membership card as he swore off politics, has now appointed himself the Labour Party’s chief.
“We also wonder if Obasanjo is unaware of Peter Obi’s ethno-sectarian bigotry that saw him only favouring Catholics and his clan members as the governor of Anambra state.
“If Obasanjo was unaware of this ugly side of his “mentee” then he definitely cannot play the ostrich in the ugly matter of the expose in the Pandora Papers, including how Obi invested Anambra state’s money in his family business. These behaviours certainly are at variance with Nigeria that the youth are yearning for.”
PYFN further advised Obasanjo to first wash his hands clean of the blood of the innocent before attempting to teach the youth how to elect their leaders.
The statement added:
“For Peter Obi, we advise that he should seek and learn from a humane mentor before returning to attempt to be Nigeria’s president as the man he currently holds as his mentor is too evil to have any electoral value.”