Former Lagos State governor and chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bola Tinubu, has accused former president Olusegun Obasanjo of leaving a legacy of electoral corruption in the country and consequently urged him to retire from politics.

Tinubu, who spoke in Lagos yesterday, said Obasanjo lacked the integrity to speak on free and fair election because he also left a legacy of failures in several aspects of the nation's economy including the petroleum sector, power sector and in the privatization of public companies.

Tinubu said it was due to the widespread electoral malpractices recorded during Obasanjo's tenure that the federal government under the late President Umaru Yar'Adua set up the Justice Mohammed Uwais panel to look into such issues and come up with a report on how to prevent future occurrences. Unfortunately, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) failed to implement the report of the panel in its entirety, Tinubu said.

His words: "What integrity has Obasanjo in terms of legacy for Nigeria, for him to speak on election? The only election that was clear in this country was when we started the Fourth Republic. The worst legacy in electoral practice was led by Obasanjo.

He has no reason whatsoever and he has no audacity to talk about free and fair election in this country, apart from his aborted third term election.

"He left a legacy of electoral corruption in the country to the extent that his successor had to set up the Justice Mohamadu Uwais panel, but still instead of implementing Uwais' comprehensively, and improve on the elections, the Peoples Democratic Party stage-managed and side-tracked that report. Implement only one or two items. What is Obasanjo talking about? He should go away and retire in shame politically because he brought a whole salad of corruption, manipulation and failures."

Tinubu also said Obasanjo lacks the pedigree to speak on local government elections because he did not believe in their creation.

He added that the ex-president withheld the funding of local governments in Lagos State, stressing that his party will go ahead to contest the outcome of the Kogi gubernatorial election won by Captain Idris Wada of the PDP.

The ex-governor further said: "He has no audacity to talk about the local government election. Is it the local government that he didn't believe in its creation?

Is it the local governments that he withheld the funding and other related constitutional compliance? Did he ever believe in free and fair election? He should not be talking in this country. He should cover his face, go to his farm and milk his cows and attend to the chickens."

On the plans of his party to contest the outcome of the Kogi gubernatorial election, Tinubu said: "We are going to do so. Until Nigeria has a free and fair election, we will not be at peace in this country and we will not build the nation. That is the truth."

The ACN chieftain said the former president left vital issues unsolved during his years in office including the issue of removing petroleum subsidy, and solving the crisis in the electricity sector.

"What legacy has Obasanjo left for this country? Look at the petroleum issue; I can show you papers on this when we start discussions on the petroleum subsidies. What did he do? He left that problem.

What has he done on electricity? He left that legacy of failure till now. What has he done in privatisation? He left the litany of corruption. It was Obasanjo that made us give another vocabulary in transparency.

He said that you can be transparent corruptly. We note transparent corruption in Transcorp and so many other companies under the privatization scheme. The man has no locus to even talk about transparency," Tinubu added.

Meanwhile, the Awori Consultative Council headed by Olota of Ota, Oba Moshood Alani Arolagbade III, has dragged Obasanjo before the Ogun State Truth Commission, asking him to answer questions on certain alleged actions, which were considered detrimental to Ota people.

Obasanjo was dragged to the commission by the Awori Consultative Council based on his position as the Balogun of Owu kingdom and the role he allegedly played in 2009 when the Owu allegedly attacked, maimed, kidnapped and killed some Ota indigenes in Ado/Odo Ota local government of the state.

Other charges against the ex-president, according to the commission registrar, include dehumanisation, maiming, inhuman treatment killing of some Aworis by the Owu during the Obaship crisis that engulfed the town.

The registrar, who informed the commission that Obasanjo and other respondents had not been served with the court summons personally, sought adjournment of the case.

The chairman of the commission, Justice Pius Aderemi, complained on the manner in which the petition was written, saying the names of both the respondent and the petitioner were not clearly stated in the petition.

He therefore advised the community to refile the petition to make the case clearer.

In his oral application, the lawyer to the community, Mr. Salako Hibattullah, said he would rather file an addendum rather than withdraw the petition with intent to file a fresh one, praying the court for an adjournment.

Ruling on the application, Justice Aderemi granted an adjournment till January 11, 2012, for further hearing on the case and 'to enable Alhaji Salako to regularise his positions'.

In another development, the duo of former governor Gbenga Daniel and his wife Olufunke were, in a separate case, also brought before the commission to answer questions bordering on assault, threat to life, among others.

The lawyer to the ex-governor and his wife, Mr. Samson Ozah, who was holding brief for Dr. Yemi Oke, drew the attention of the commission to a letter praying for an adjournment on the petitions relating to Daniel and his wife.

Justice Aderemi rejected the advancement of the letter for the inability of the counsel to have served the letter earlier before the proceeding.

Samson Ozah, who argued that he could not confirm whether his clients had been served with the court summons personally, made an oral submission and application.

Ozah prayed for an adjournment to enable Oke, who was said to be before a court in Abuja, argue the cases himself and also accept the service of the petition.

The cases were adjourned till January 11, 2012, after the lawyer was served with the two petitions.