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The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has been more democratic than the three previous presidents before him, including Olusegun Obasanjo. Mr Akin Malaolu, the Secretary-General of the forum said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. The Forum was reacting to recent alarm by Obasanjo that  plans were being plotted to frame him by the Buhari-led APC government. Malaolu, who described Obasanjo’s alarm as strange, said: “if anything at all was tormenting him, it must be karma that knows his face and has his addresses.” “If Civil Society Organisations call for Nigeria’s anti corruption agencies to urgently revisit the 16 billion dollars Obasanjo Electricity and Power Development Contracts, will that now be deemed that Buhari is plotting to kill Obasanjo. “When Obasanjo was calling on Nigerians not to re-elect Buhari come 2019, there was nothing seen as wrong with his inciting and national destabilisation acts and declarations,” Malaolu

Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to submit himself for probe by the Muhammadu Buhari administration, saying the former president should also take his current travails in his strides. This is just as the governor said Obasanjo cannot also make his predicament a Yoruba issue, adding that it is good that Obasanjo is now being served the goodies he saw in Buhari that made him a Buhari’s promoter during the 2015 general elections. He stated this in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday while reacting to the allegation by Obasanjo that Buhari was after his life. In a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, he quoted the governor as also advising Buhari that what goes around, comes around. “To me, former President Obasanjo should submit himself for probe and trial. He gave us the impression that he is a brave man who is not afraid of anything. He is a retired general in the army who has seen a lot and should no