Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said that some people in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will not only go to jail but will go to hell if their corrupt acts were exposed.

Obasanjo, who stated this on Tuesday during an interview with the Yoruba Service of the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) which was monitored by PUNCH also accused Buhari of nepotism and giving priority to his ethnic group when making appointments into sensitive positions.

His words: “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.

“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 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.”

The former President also explained why he forgave his then Vice and current presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, adding: “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.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 does not know anything about economy. Have you not seen it? I said he does not know about diplomatic relations, have you not seen it?

“Look at our economy, is it the way it should be? Our economy can never develop if foreign investors do not come to invest in the economy. But as it is, they are not coming into the country and they will never come.”