The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to make full disclosures to Nigerians on all he knows about former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The position came amidst speculation that the former president was returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and his supposed role in procurement of the United States of America visa for his former deputy.
Following the reconciliation, the former president has been using every available forum to canvas support for Atiku candidature in the 2019 poll.
But in an exclusive interview with Blueprint in Abuja, APC National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, said the ruling party was waiting for a review of Obasanjo’s book (My Watch), where he warned the country against the former vice president.
Asked whether the APC is threatened with the purported return of Obasanjo to PDP, he said the party was not in any way moved.
“Well, not at all. Obasanjo’s position is clear. Just as the party has stated earlier, he wants to continue to rule this nation by proxy. It would have been okay if he meant well. But, his eight years and subsequent years after whatever action or whatever steps he had taken, did not suggest he meant well for this country.
“And so, in any case we are not worried. But, again we are waiting for a review of his book of all the things he said about Atiku. We are waiting for him to do Volume 2 so that he will say it was a lie.
“And if it was not lie, and he was saying the truth, then he doesn’t have the interest of this country in mind by supporting somebody he said that much about him and he has warned us.
“And we should also take note of Obasanjo’s statement during the so-called reconciliatory meeting they had. He said ‘Atiku, I have forgiven you. But, go and do what you need to do to sort out the international community.’
“Is there something Obasanjo knows about Atiku that he has not told us, or that the country does not know yet? As a leader of this country, a one-time military president and a one-time president as a civilian for 8 years, he owes this country the full disclosure of whatever he is hiding about Atiku. He has done enough, but in the interim, there are more that we want to know.”
On the claim that APC was planning to neutralise Obasanjo, Onilu said: “For what? It is about vote. With due respect to the former president, he has only one vote, only one vote.
“And, we also want to ask if has found the pieces of his voter card or PDP membership card that he tore publicly. Has he been able to put them together now? Or has he gotten a new one?”
