The Presidency has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo that terrorism took root under his watch as president of Nigeria.

Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Mr Sunday Dare, said this on his verified X account on Sunday, adding that Obasanjo was not in the right position to criticise Tinubu over the worsening security situation in the country.

This is coming following Obasanjo’s comment that President Tinubu should seek foreign help if he is unable to address the nation’s security challenges.

The former president called for Nigeria to subcontract its internal security to foreign governments is not an act of statesmanship.

The presidency, while blasting Obasanjo said that before the former President recommends surrendering the country’s sovereignty to foreign powers, he should reflect on what he allegedly failed to do when terrorists first began organising under his watch.

“This administration will not be distracted by selective amnesia wrapped in elder-statesmanship, nor will it allow those who midwifed Nigeria’s early security failures to rewrite history.

“Recent comments by a former President and a few habitual presidential aspirants attempting to paint the Tinubu administration as ‘unable to protect Nigerians’ are not merely hypocritical but ignoble. They ignore the hard truth: Nigeria is facing terrorists, all of them, by every definition, be they international, regional or local.

“Yet the very individuals who looked away when these threats first sprouted now want to sit in judgment. Nigerians know better.

“The suggestion that Nigeria should effectively subcontract its internal security to foreign governments is not statesmanship; it is capitulation. Before recommending surrender, the former President should reflect on what he failed to do when these terrorists first began organising under his watch,” Dare wrote.