Garba Shehu: We don’t take Obasanjo seriously anymore

Garba Shehu, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, says the presidency no longer takes the utterances of former President Olusegun Obasanjo seriously.

Shehu said this during an interactive session with reporters in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said he was not in anyway surprised that the former president was reported to have maintained neutrality at a forum, but later backtracked that he never said that but wants Buhari out.

Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo’s spokesman, had said the former president would never stay neutral ahead of the 2019 elections, saying “only a fool will sit on the fence”. He said Obasanjo maintained that Buhari’s re-election will bring “suffering much worse” than what Nigerians go through.

Shehu, however, stated that the presidency is already aware that the slightest wind can make Obasanjo change his mind.

“Former President Obasanjo denounces one person today and supports that same person the next day,” he said.

“When it pleases him, he brings God into the matter and uses that as his excuse for whatever position he has chosen.

“We have learnt not to take his utterances seriously anymore. We know that the slightest wind can make him change his mind again. After all, this is the same man who publicly tore his party registration card barely four years ago, and he now claims to be backing the same party.”