The former Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi has berated Nigerian leaders who claimed to have fought for democracy during General Sani Abacha's regime yet are the ones now destroying democracy.

Obi took to his social media accounts to state that "power indeed reveals character".

He wrote: "Yesterday defenders of democracy, today's destroyers, What a shame.

"What an irony of history, that the acclaimed defenders of democracy and human rights who claimed to have fought for democracy during the era of General Sani Abacha now find themselves worse than the man they opposed.

"Today, General Sani Abacha, once presumed face of oppression, will be remembered as seemingly more democratic and more respectful of human rights than the so-called champions of activism from the NADECO days. Power indeed reveals character."

He ended the post with his slogan, "A New Nigeria is POssible."