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Obasanjo govt is fascist, says PSP chieftain
By Augustine Madu-west
Senior Correspondent � Kano
Deputy President-General of the People�s Salvation Party (PSP), Dr Suleima Kumo has described the present administration
of President Olusegun Obasanjo as a fascist regime that has thrown all known democratic principles to the wind.
Kumo, who spoke on the performance of the PDP-led government, said: �This government is the biggest disaster that
has ever been inflicted upon the Nigerian (people) for the past century. From the colonial days to date the people
of Nigeria have never found themselves in such a disastrous situation, the kind they are living in now.
�This is a government which represents nobody; it was not even elected, Obasanjo is just perching there being propped
up by security operatives. As such, the man is running a fascist government,� Kumo, a founding member of the PDP
before defecting to PSP, declared in an exclusive interview in Kano.
The former deputy vice chancellor, Academics, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, also took on the National Assembly
members, whom he referred to as stooges. �The National Assembly lacks the courage to call the President to order,
oblivious of his atrocities.� This, to him, is because �70 per cent to 95 per cent of them were Obasanjo�s appointees
and by a large extent his boys.�
�This clearly shows that Nigerians are living under a regime of a conspiracy of a small fraction of the Nigerian
elite, who are determined to lord it over the good people of Nigeria for as long as they can.
On why the north backed Obasanjo for the presidency in 1998, a member of the defunct G34, which brought pressure
on the late General Sani Abacha, he stated:
�We did not support or vote for him because of his blue eyes or because of his tribal marks but because we thought
he would be able to carry our people along, initiate reforms that would turn the nation around, having occupied
similar position between 1976 and 1979.�
People thought he was the same Obasanjo they knew, unknown to them he came with another agenda this time around.�
The Kano politician lamented that under the present government, tribal and sectional considerations have overridden
national interest as appointments into public offices are no longer based on competence, ability and capability,
adding that there was no longer justice in the country.
Kumo accuses the presidency of antagonising the north and the Igbo speaking South-East, pointing out that the Anambra
crises was part of the design by this government to destroy the political reputation of a state that has produced
Nigeria�s great leaders like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, the late Dr Chugba Okadigbo and others.
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