An elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday continued his barrage of attacks on the ruling All Progressives Congress and the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, saying if their activities are exposed they will be thrown in hell.

The former president said this in a BBC Yoruba interview shared online.

Comparing the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku, and APC’s Buhari, Obasanjo said the former will do better than the latter.

WuzupNaija recalls that Obasanjo lambasted Atiku in his book ‘My Watch’, accusing of corruption and sabotage. He also at different times said God would never forgive him if he backed Atiku.

However, it seems his disposition towards Atiku has changed with his recent support and campaign for the former vice president.

Explaining his stance on Atiku, Obasanjo said,

“What I am saying is that where we are today; our present situation, if you look at those who are there today and our boss (Buhari), I insist that Atiku will do better than them.

“This is not a prophecy. Those in government today, if we expose them, all of them will enter hell; they will not only go to jail. They will go to hell. Whoever that God does not expose his sins to the public is the person whose secret is kept.”

Obasanjo, however, said he was not privy to the plans of Atiku if he became Nigeria’s next President.

He said,

“I did not say he (Atiku) will behave like Jesus. I did not say he will behave like Prophet Muhammed, but he will do better, in fact twice better than what we have at present.”

Obasanjo said the President’s performance in the area of the economy was worse than his assessment of his (Buhari) knowledge of the economy in 2015.

He said,

“Those who talked about what I said about Atiku, what about what I said about Buhari? His performance is even worse than what I thought.

“I said Buhari did not know anything about economy. Have you not seen it? I said he did not know about diplomatic relations, have you not seen it?

While accusing Buhari of nepotism, Obasanjo said the President gave priorities to his ethnic group when appointing people into sensitive positions.

“Look at what is happening, the person that is leading us says he cannot appoint any other tribes into the posts he considers sensitive because he does not trust them. If he cannot trust my tribe and your tribe what is the benefit? And he still wants my tribe and your tribe to vote for him. So, he can ask us to vote for him but he cannot trust us to be appointed into sensitive positions. What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.

“If you don’t trust us, how do you want me to trust you? If you trust me and I misbehave replace me with another person. But if only your maternal and paternal relatives are the only people you can appoint because they are the only people you can trust…

“In Nigeria, where we have tribes numbering about 500, you now said you could not trust some people. That is what we are saying.”