MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS RISK FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WRATH OVER ATTACK ON OBASANJO

However, the Minister on Monday attacked the former president, accusing him of “sensationalism”, arguing that as a Minister for two years in the administration of Buhari, he considered it a patriotic duty to speak out.

Shittu, said he was speaking personally and as an All Progressives Congress(APC) member, stressing that the government had not been talking enough, adding that as a member of the cabinet, he has right to know better, and also state the other side which perhaps the former president did not know

“Obasanjo as a Nigerian has the right to hold an opinion. If Obasanjo holds an opinion that Mr. President has performed less than it should be, those of us who are in the position to know better have a right to also state the other side which perhaps Obasanjo is ignorant of,” the minister said.

“You see, there are some people who enjoy engaging in sensationalism. With due respect to General Obasanjo, if you take his history over the last 30 years, there is hardly any regime other than his own that he did not criticise, except Sani Abacha, who didn’t wait for Obasanjo to criticise him before he was sent to the gulag’,Shittu said.

“So many Nigerians know that Obasanjo enjoys this type of sensationalisation. In any case, no matter what impression you have of me, do you have a right to tell me not to contest an election? I mean we should talk like people who are educated, who know our left from the right,” he added.

It would also be recalled that, the Minister recently opened a South West campaign office for Buhari and his vice, Yemi Osinbajo, ahead 2019 election in Ibadan Oyo state, and in the same vein, attended the meeting of the Federal executive Council,( FEC), with bags full of Buhari/Osinbajo caps which were distributed.

The Federal Executive Council, apparently not comfortable with the development, through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), Boss Mustapha had to stop the sharing of the souvenirs

Penpushing sources, as at the time of filing this report, however, disclosed that, following this effrontery and disregard to the President order, the Minister is being considered to be on his own, if the development turns contrary to his expectations