The Presidency has dismissed the recent
utterances by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as “a sign of confusion not
worthy of attention.”
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday,
presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said that whoever “Obasanjo chooses to
support at the 2019 elections is irrelevant.’’
He noted that the former president had publicly
changed his mind on the matter so many times over the past few months.
He said: “Former
President Obasanjo denounces one person today and supports that same person the
next day.
“When it pleases him, he brings God into the
matter and uses that as his excuse for whatever position he has chosen.’’
Shehu added that he was not surprised that
newspapers reported Obasanjo expressing neutrality at a weekend forum, only for
the former president to express “a completely different stance after a day or
two.”
“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,’’ Shehu added.
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