OBASANJO SLAMS INTO GEJ AGAIN, SAYS NIGERIANS AREN'T BEING TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ECONOMY

                    

Mr. Obasanjo was speaking at a book launch in honor of the ICPC pioneer chairman, Mustapha Akanbi. Functioning as the chairman of the occasion, Obasanjo said Jonathan should stop encouraging ‘verbal violence which may not physically hurt but has ways of degenerating into physical violence’.

Meanwhile  he said the greatest anomaly in GEJ's government was his administration's trying to muzzle all opposition, which is tantamount to destroying the backbone of democracy.

“Management of democracy without resorting to brute force and dictatorial tendencies must be cultivated. As a leader, you must not deliberately do evil or condone evil. You should know that you will one day give account to God, you may cover up here, but before God, there is no cover up,” he said.

Speaking on insecurity, Obasanjo said that Boko Haram wasn't out to “frustrate anyone’s political efforts” and that it took ages for Jonathan to fully understand the terrorism menace.

Speaking on corruption, he said: “when the head is rotten, the whole body is useless.”

Speaking on the current economic travails, he said that the economy would continue to sink, and that Nigerians were being lied to about the state of the economy. He observed that what is being told about the state of Nigeria's economy “is not truly what the economy is”.“The economy is in doldrums, if not in reverse,” he said.