It Is A Vehement Insult To Question Buhari's Qualifications-OBASANJO

Previous president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday said it is offending and strange to scrutinize the scholastic accreditations of APC presidential applicant, resigned Gen. Muhammad Buhari.

Talking at the dispatch of his book, My Watch, in London, Obasanjo said when he joined the armed force, it was compulsory that one must have WASC or GCE before enrolling in the military.

He said the prerequisites were the same when Gen. Buhari joined the armed force in 1961, including that regardless of the possibility that Buhari did not have the obliged capabilities then, he had experienced the staff school which is comparable to a first degree and the U.S. War College which is comparable to a graduate degree.

"On the off chance that anyone conceives that I'm ignorant or uneducated in the wake of going to numerous military organizations in the UK, India and the US, they ought to peruse my books", he said, and urged those occupied with Buhari's capability catastrophe to "spotlight on main problems and quit declining into technicalities".

Obasanjo, who addressed inquiries from the gathering of people on different socio-political issues influencing Nigeria, said he would survey the competitors in the race and "vote in favor of one with the best record".

The previous president commented that God would not have forgotten him in the event that he had permitted VP Atiku Abubakar to succeed him, noting that with his experience, he comprehended what the employment of running Nigeria involved and who could do it well.

On whether he was overheating the Nigerian nation with his remarks, Obasanjo said: "I am not warming anything. At the point when things are going terrible and you can't say anything, you are an accessory. On the off chance that anyone can demonstrate that what I am stating isn't right, I will apologize".

On the Chibok young ladies, Obasanjo criticized the national government for taking long to recognize the occurrence, however not doing what's necessary to bring back the young ladies, focusing on that however the young ladies might never meet up again, "we should not overlook them".

He said regardless of the issues tormenting Nigeria, the nation's future is "ruddy" and splendid, accentuating that the nation confronted comparable issues previously, including the common war yet turned out stronger.

"God will see Nigeria through. Nigeria will rise effectively and propel up and", he said.

The book dispatch which was gone to by principally Nigerians in Diaspora, was secured by Richard Dowden of the Royal African Society, London, and Zeinab Badawi, a prestigious TV supporter.