The Presidency has fired back at the former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comment that Nigeria under Buhari’s administration is failed state.

The Elder Statesman had at a forum in Abuja said Nigeria was becoming a failed state under President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to Obasanjo, the present Nigeria as never been more divided than before.

He added that the country had now become the poverty capital of the world.

However, the Presidency in a statement issued by the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the president, Garba Shehu, knocked Obasanjo for his unguarded statement and described him as “Nigeria’s Divider-in-Chief.”

According to Shehu, Obasanjo with his unfair attacks on President Buhari and his government had descended from the lofty heights of a Commander-in-Chief.

The statement read: “In his most recent statement, former President Olusegun Obasanjo attempts to divide the nation while President Muhammadu Buhari continues to promote nation-building and the unity of Nigeria.

“The difference is clear. From the lofty heights of Commander-in-Chief, General Obasanjo has descended to the lowly level of Divider-in-Chief (to adapt the coinage of time).”

He urged the ex-president to get involved with problems solving, when and where they exist instead of helping the “mushrooming of a poisonous atmosphere of ethnic and religious nationalism.”