A Niger-Delta political commentator, community leader and public affairs analyst, Chief Tunde Smooth, has called on former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida to immediately seek ways to resolve their differences amicably.

Smooth, in a statement, Monday, appealed to both Obasanjo and Babangida to consider their positions as former heads of state and desist from running down their personalities in the media.

He added that the rift does not say anything positive about the nation’s image.

Smooth said Nigerians deserve more than what the former leaders’ actions because their  tenure sent many Nigerians to early grave and also made able-bodied men and women to become beggars, despite the abundance in the country.

He said: “At this time of our history, the former heads of state should reflect and see how they can collectively rescue the situation by religiously addressing the areas they may have made mistakes so that the present administrators could be guided.”

Smooth charged former leaders to channel their energy into activities that could bring the needed transformation Nigerians are hoping for, and not dramas and comedy on the pages of newspapers.