The Senator representing Nasarawa West senatorial district, Abdullahi Adamu, APC, said former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has become a national nuisance by his continued condemnation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Mr Adamu, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said Mr Obasanjo would have been in jail if Mr Buhari was not selective in his anti-corruption war.
He stated that every government had its challenges and that President Buhari inherited the rot left behind by previous administrations, including that of Mr Obasanjo.
He added that Mr Buhari’s challenges could not be an exception.
He said: “Chief Obasanjo said that President Buhari is selective in his anti-corruption war.
“I agree with him because if the president were not selective, Chief Obasanjo himself would be in the dock today on trial on charges of corruption during his third term gambit in the national assembly in 2006.
“As a friend, I wish to advise the former president to pull back from the dangerous path of rubbishing all presidents that came into office after him. Bringing everyone down is not a patriotic duty.
“I fear that if he continues along this path, he would, sooner than later, overreach himself and begin the inevitable descent into national nuisance and irrelevance.
“That would be a self-inflicted wound and a personal tragedy,” Senator Adamu said.
Obasanjo had in an open letter advised President Buhari not to seek a second term.
