Ekiti State Gover­nor, Ayodele Fayose, has de­scribed former president Olusegun Obasanjo as the number one enemy of Nigeria, say­ing he (Obasanjo) has lost his status as a statesman and Nigerians should ignore him.

The governor, who ex­pressed confidence that President Goodluck Jonathan would be re-elected, added: “Obasanjo is only fighting President Jonathan because he prevented him (Obasanjo) from ruling Nige­ria from his Ota farm.”

In a statement issued yes­terday by his Special As­sistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said: “Obasanjo is a cancer that may never get cured in a lifetime. The mo­ment Obasanjo is not the one controlling a house, he will want the house pulled down, but this time around, he has failed.

“Obasanjo has always benefitted from the misfor­tune of others and he is liv­ing with the impression that he is the wisest person in the whole world. When Murtala Mohammed was murdered in 1976, Obasanjo was the beneficiary.

“In 1993, he said the ac­claimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, was not the Messiah Nigeria needed. Instead of Obasanjo to join the clamour for the actualisation of Abio­la’s mandate, Obasanjo was canvassing for an Interim National Government, which he schemed to head.

“MKO Abiola died in de­tention in 1997 and Obasanjo became the beneficiary of his (Abiola’s) death. Despite the fact that it was on the blood of MKO Abiola that Obasanjo marched to power, not even a street was named after Abiola throughout Obasan­jo’s eight years as president.

“Today, Obasanjo is fight­ing President Jonathan, the man who has done what he failed to do for Abiola, the Yoruba people and Nigeri­ans as a whole when he was president for eight years; sim­ply because he does not want anyone to equal his record as Nigeria’s longest serving president.

Fayose accused Obasanjo of attacking Jonathan be­cause he could not control the president.

“President Jonathan has made it impossible for Obasanjo to run his presiden­cy for him and for this reason, he is supporting Buhari, hop­ing that he will be the one to nominate ministers for Bu­hari if he becomes president,” Fayose said.

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