Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the persons behind the rumoured death of President Muhammadu Buhari as “wicked and callous.”
A statement by his media aide, Mr. Kehinde Akinyemi, today, Friday in Abeokuta, quoted the former president as saying: “no normal human being will wish an elderly person dead, irrespective of their differences. President Buhari needs our prayers rather than bad wishes.
“For anyone wishing him dead, such person or groups of persons are callous, wicked and treacherous. I was also rumoured to have died almost 12 times.
“I don’t know what they derive from doing so, but, they should seek for forgiveness.
He said that prayers from well meaning persons, particularly, Nigerians would help Buhari to get well quickly and ginger his morale to return to the country stronger and better.
Obasanjo called on Nigerians to desist from politicizing the president’s health, adding: “if you don’t like him, wait for another election and stop spreading rumour that he is dead.
“No matter what his health situation maybe, we should pray for him to recover quick and come back stronger and better.
“Even if we know that the President is sick, he is in a better position to know what to say or what to do and not wishing him dead. We should just stop politicizing everything, especially with the elderly in the country.”
(NAN). [myad]
