‘You’re An Hypocrite’ – Dele Alake Fires Obasanjo Over Peter Obi’s Endorsement

Former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dele Alake has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a “hypocrite and busybody”.

Alake, Special  Adviser on Media, Communications, and Public Affairs of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, also described Obasanjo’s open endorsement of the Labour Party (LP), flagbearer, Peter Obi, as preposterous.

The former Commissioner stated that the former Nigerian leader has no moral compass to lecture any citizen on leadership, adding that his comments are laughable.

Alake said Obasanjo’s notorious antecedents in Nigeria’s political history are there in the public space, saying that the Owu Chief might be plotting for an interim government.

He added that the former president sees Nigeria as a movie where only he is the all-conquering hero while others are doomed villains.

He said, “It is laughable that Obasanjo has the temerity to deem himself qualified to lecture Nigerians on who to elect as a leader. Throughout his political trajectory in public life, he has unfailingly demonstrated gross incompetence in this regard.

“In 1979, his military regime was designed to produce the weakest leadership in a political terrain that had such proven leadership talents as Adamu Ciroma, Aminu Kano, Maitama Sule, Waziri Ibrahim, Nnamdi Azikiwe or Obafemi Awolowo, among others.

“In 2007, after his two-term tenure and the failure of his third term agenda, he influenced the emergence of two PDP successors who failed partly because of the weak institutional foundation he had laid and partly because of their own limitations.

“In endorsing Obi, Obasanjo resorted to verbose and nebulous generalities without telling Nigerians in concrete terms what was his preferred candidate’s track record of performance as governor in Anambra state.”