OBJ, Buhari planning to install interim govt — FG

The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, has claimed that there is an on-going plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to form an interim government. Adesiyan made this revelation in Lagos on Monday at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ by Yinka Odumakin.

“Many of those in the APC are disgruntled PDP members who are no longer relevant and because they could not have their way, they have started to heat up the polity. They have said they will form a parallel government if they lose.

“I have already told the IG and the DSS to arrest anybody making such mutinous and inflammatory statements.”

Adesiyan noted that the recent threat by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State that the APC would form a parallel government if the 2015 general elections were rigged raised more suspicion. He said “Obasanjo is already planning to install an interim government with Buhari. But we will vote and we will work with whoever wins the election.”

Adesiyan went on to accuse Obasanjo of picking Jonathan as running mate to the late President, Umaru Yar’Adua, because he felt he could control him. “He picked a President that was sick and while we were campaigning for the President, he (Yar’Adua) was always in Germany receiving treatment. While many were lobbying for the VP slot, Obasanjo picked a gentleman, Goodluck Jonathan, who had no strong political base so that he could control him.

“Unfortunately for Obasanjo, God had a better plan and Jonathan refused to be used. Obasanjo, being the man that he is, has now teamed up with Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar to snatch power but Tinubu will outsmart him because we Osun people are smart. Ask Tinubu, he is my brother, from my state. He is from Iragbiji while I am from Ode-Omu.”

The All Progressives Congress however reacted to these claims through the Director of Communications, Buhari Campaign Organisations, Dele Alake. A statement by the party said “It must have dawned on Nigerians that the PDP don’t have any answer to the multifarious problems plaguing Nigeria and that is why they have resorted to mudslinging and character assassination.

“If Buhari was planning an interim government, why would he be running for President in the first place? I think sanity has taken leave from them.

“Buhari remains the only viable solution to the quagmire that Nigeria has fallen into and it will take a disciplined person like Buhari to straighten things out.”