Nigeria's President
Goodluck Jonathan has accused ex-leader Olusegun Obasanjo of threatening
"national security" by whipping up opposition to his rule.
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| President Jonathan is facing serious divisions in the governing PDP |
Mr Obasanjo had "set the stage for subversion" after making
false claims of assassination plots and "high corruption" in government,
he said.
Mr Jonathan was responding for this first time to a letter Mr Obasanjo wrote to him earlier this month.
He had called on the president not to seek re-election in 2015.
The public spat between the two
men shows the deep divisions that have engulfed the governing People's
Democratic Party (PDP), amid fears that it could lose the election under
Mr Jonathan's leadership, correspondents say.
Last week, Mr Jonathan lost his majority in the lower
chamber, the House of Representatives, after 37 PDP MPs defected to the
opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) party.
A powerful faction of state governors have also crossed over
to the APC, leaving the PDP with fewer governors than the opposition.
BBC
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