Gen Buhari speaking out against president Jonathan

General Buhari recently spoke out about the recent removal of state governors going on . First Adamawa governor was impeached, and now Nasarawa state is also at the process of impeaching its governor. In his statements he indicated that he had private conversations with the president about the current trend but nothing was done about it.  He said ‘‘Our country has gone through several rough patches, but never before have I seen a Nigerian President declare war on his own country as we are seeing now.

“Never before have I seen a Nigerian President deploy federal institutions in the service of partisanship as we are witnessing now. Never before have I seen a Nigerian President utilise the commonwealth to subvert the system and punish the opposition, all in the name of politics.“with innocent citizens being daily mowed down at the times and places of the group’s chosen and over 200 schoolgirls spending more than three months in precarious captivity.”    ‘‘Whether or not President Goodluck Jonathan is behind the gale of impeachment or the utilisation of desperate tactics to suffocate the opposition and turn Nigeria into a one-party state, what cannot be denied is that they are happening under his watch, and he cannot pretend not to know, since that will be akin to hiding behind one finger.“Yes, I am a politician. Yes, I am in the opposition. Yes, there is the tendency for my statement to be misconstrued as that of a politician rather than a statesman. But I owe it as a matter of duty and honour, and in the interest of our nation, to speak out on the dangerous trajectory that our nation is heading.

The president's spokesman Reuben Abati said the general has moved away from being patriotic and statesmanlike to "unbridled political partisanship". he stated that instead of the party to work together to solve their crises they are pointing fingers at the president instead. The president said he has never in acts , deed or speech promoted violence for political gain. neither has he ever ordered the kidnapping of any nigerian citizen.