Mixed reactions, yesterday, trailed the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on President Muhammadu Buhari to sidestep a second term bid just as campaign materials supportive of a second term for the President flooded yesterday’s meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
The campaign materials, including fez caps, were distributed to ministers by the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, to his colleagues.
Meanwhile, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in its first formal reaction to Obasanjo’s calls, admitted that both the party and its government had faced challenges but affirmed that its challenges did not necessitate the call for a third force as advocated by Obasanjo.
Dr. Obasanjo’s injunction for the formulation of a third force to wrest political power from the ruling APC and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was yesterday being promoted with covert meetings by some new political groups and parties.
The Alliance for a New Nigeria, ANN, one of the newly registered political parties promoted by some young Nigerian professionals, while welcoming the call, said it was reflective of its earlier call that both the APC and the PDP were inherently deficient to take Nigeria to the Promised Land.
Obasanjo had in a special press statement on Tuesday, called on President Buhari to sidestep calls to seek a second term on the claim that his first term had been beset with incompetence, failed expectations, corruption, and clannish tendencies.
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