Obasanjo is
spearheading a secret agenda tied to his personal political interests.
What Nigerians should realize from the former president’s
antecedents is that he is a very deceitful and insincere man who was complicit
in creating the mess Nigeria is in today
Obasanjo was the most corrupt of all
Nigerian leaders. He stole Nigerian oil money as the President and Petroleum
Minister. He awarded road contracts and did not build the roads but
pocketed the money
Obasanjo was
the same man that attempted third term and was confronted headlong. He is the
same man that destroyed our nation. He later imposed a sick man as a leader and
we are where we are today.
Mr. Obasanjo is “the same man that gloried and
celebrated corruption in Nigeria. Obasanjo the former president “ensured
that corruption got its solid foundation, and today he is the so called moral
voice of Nigeria. It is dangerous and scary. Obasanjo did not believe in
the principles he wrote about in a leaked letter that descended on Mr. Jonathan
with harsh words.
Obasanjo lost
his moral standing to criticize corruption during his administration. He
started his Presidency with only about 20,000 naira in his personal bank
account but left the Presidency with a university to his name (The Bell
University) worth billions of dollars and his Ota farm (currently holds 6000
employees) worth billions of dollars was largely expanded. Nigerian wants
to know how he got this money. This is corruption. Where is EFCC?
Iyaba
Obasanjo said that her father- Olusegun Obansanjo, is a liar, manipulator,
hypocrite' Remember that Obasanjo abandoned his wife and six
children. Obasanjo’s first son on Gbenga years ago exposed his father a bigger
public ridicule years ago by claiming that he slept with his wife. Obasanjo(evil
man) have no moral standing
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
APC Chieftain in December 2011 said “what
integrity has Obasanjo in terms of his legacies for Nigeria to speak on
elections? Apart from his aborted third term ambition, he brought about
and left a legacy of electoral corruption in the country. What is
Obasanjo talking about? He should go away and retire in shame politically. He
should leave the political landscape of this country alone. He brought
a whole salad of corruption, manipulation and failures.” -
Obasanjo killed several of his political
enemies in the hundreds including his wife. Obasanjo is a murderer and human
right abuser
It
is a fact of history that during Obasanjo’s Presidency, his Minister of
Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was assassinated by operatives just before he resigned
from the cabinet to go and revive his Alliance for Democracy (AD) to deny
Obasanjo access to the South West, the home base he desperately needed to make
certain his second term in power. Chief Marshall Harry, Chief Aminasori Dikibo
and many others were murdered, and the killers were never found. Obasanjo
ordered the abduction of Governor Chris Ngige and the burning of the Government
House and public offices in Awka, the Anambra State capital. The kettle
calls the flask black!
Did Obasanjo forget his political assassinations (including that of Bola
Ige, his attorney general and minister of justice) during his macabre rule, the
massacres in Odi and Zaki Biam.
Obasanjo’s administrations, 1976-1979 and 1999-2007.
Obasanjo seems to have forgotten too soon his squabble with his deputy, Atiku
Abubakar, that made nonsense of governance.
Obasanjo poisoned Umaru Musa Yar'Adua’s food
because Yar'Adua inherited Obasanjo's kitchen staff. This was revealed from a
leak cable recently( reference 08LAGOS153). It revealed that the Yar'Adua
inherited Obasanjo's kitchen staff. It will be recalled that Yar'Adua reversal
of the sale of state owned refineries drew the anger of Oluousegun Obasanjo.
On his command thousands of Biafran children starved
to death. On his command the World witnessed one of the most tragic abuse of
human rights and a genocide which repeated itself in Odi community, Bayelsa
state, in his second coming.
Obasanjo rigged all his elections during
his tenure using government security agencies. It was a do or die affair for
Obasanjo
Obasanjo
accuses Jonathan of supporting non-PDP candidates for governorship elections in
Ondo, Edo and Anambra for his personal political purposes. I ask, what about
Obasanjo, who pulled PDP out of the race in the 2007 Imo governorship election
because the winner of the primaries in the PDP, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, was
not his anointed candidate. He went ahead to support Chief Ikedi Ohakim of the
Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) to clinch the seat. Ohakim continues to pay
pilgrimages to Obasanjo’s house hoping he will swing another magic wand to
enable him return to power. Has he forgotten so soon? Well, we have not!
Chief Obasanjo’s letter was a confirmation of the heavy blow his
administration dealt on democracy when election rigging and manipulations were
used to muscle out opposition parties and recalled that APGA suffered the same
terrible fate in 2003 when its victory was given to PDP and it took three years
of legal battle to reclaim the mandate.
Obasanjo
also wails that Jonathan is plotting a “third term”! Well, the courts have said
he still has the constitutional right to run for a second, not third term in
2015. The kettle is calling the flask black because Obasanjo suffered the most
humiliating defeat when his third term agenda was nixed on the floor of the
Senate on May 16th 2006. Where was the “morality” then which Obasanjo now
preaches? What about his refusal to abide by the pact he had with the North to
run for only one term as a precondition for his being selected to stand in
place of the murdered Chief Moshood Abiola, to whom Nigerians gave their
mandate on June 12th 1993?
Obasanjo,
at that time, was expected to copy the good example of Dr. Nelson Mandela, who
voluntarily stepped down from the presidency after only one term to give his
country a chance to move forward under a younger blood. Obasanjo had blatantly
rejected the call for him to “do a Mandela”, saying: “I am no Mandela”! That
was the cause of his fights with Atiku Abubakar, his Vice.
Obasanjo is the one that locked funds of a
federating state, the one who wanted to change a constitution he helped mould
in 1979, for his personal third term ambition, he is the one under whose
presidency the PDP had a faction. He is the one who oversaw Ngige's travails in
Anambra because his 'son', Andy Uba was involved. He is the one who the other
Lamido, not the CBN governor, that "I will make you president." He
turned a few governors against their party leader and president. He is the
'unclannish' president who massacred the Odi people.
Obasanjo tried to impose his fellow
illiterates’ cronies on Anambra State in particular and Nigeria in general.
Obasanjo had no formal education but was a motor mechanic
Obasanjo organized the five Governors who
just moved from PDP to APC. When their move did not yield the result he
expected. Obasanjo the Godfather of evil came out in the open. He will lose
again and all those governors will lost big time particularly Amaechi. We will
show them.
Obasanjo did all he could to go for third
term. Thank God that he failed. How dare him challenge someone who is going for
his second term?
Obasanjo was the most tribalist leader in
the history of Nigeria. He built all the power stations during his tenure in
his village and the immediate surrounding
Chief Obasanjo continued to promote ethnic and religion differences,
that resulted in wholesale violence and loss of lives that qualified him to be
tried for crime against humanity.
Obasanjo’s agenda is to engender distrust in the polity, demoralize the
public, and grossly undermine the legitimacy of this republic.
Obasanjo’s latest intervention is no doubt anchored on the politics of
2015. In his messianic posturing, he feels he has a divine right to determine
or at least have a say on who emerges as president in the 2015 election
Under Obasanjo’s Presidency, corruption and impunity
became a way of life in the country when privileged few where given monopoly on
economic powers.
Obasanjo was in Jigawa State as guest of Governor Sule Lamido
recently making a case for Lamido as the next President of Nigeria, the
same Lamido whose sons have been indicted by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) for laundering billions of Jigawa State fund through
companies owned by the governor. That is the type of corrupt morale that
governs Obasanjo’s life
Obasanjo and his corrupt cronies are the
people who divided Nigeria because he did nothing when the north declared
Islamic republic and introduced sharia laws in a secular democracy.
Obasanjo divided Nigeria is the person who shared oil allocations amongst
his colleagues in the army and friends and families and gave 83% of allocations
to northerners and almost nothing to people from Niger delta and Eastern region
from where the bulk of the oil is found.
Obasanjo and his cronies are the people
dividing Nigeria are those who talk about placating terrorist without saying a
word about their victims.
Obasanjo is the person who divided Nigeria
by pursuing a scotch earth policy against Eastern Nigeria and did not allow
federal investments in Eastern Nigeria during his term.
Obasanjos and his corrupt cronies
are the people dividing Nigeria by sponsoring Boko Haram, pursuing Islamic
economic and social agenda for Nigeria and threatened to make Nigeria
ungovernable if Jonathan becomes president of Nigeria.
.PDP has been collapsing since Obasanjo
attempted to get a third term and dealt with all those who opposed him. Ask
erstwhile governor of Abia state Orji Uzor Kalu. He knows how Obasanjo
deals with those who opposed his third term ambition and critics.
Obasanjo’s sanctimonious attitude and
rehashed criticism of Jonathan is self-serving, hypocritical, and diabolical.
He is as much a part of the problems he condemns, as those he now blames
for them. During his term, Bola Ige, his attorney general was murdered in cold
blood and he did not even address the nation about it and those accused of his
murder and they made it to the Nigerian senate during his watch. Obasanjo tell
us the difference between an administration which shelters murders or drug
dealers?
Obasanjo and his failed administration
need to know that politics should not be an arena where the worst of us
compete on who would steal most from the rest of us, but a stage where
the best of us contest to do the most for the rest of us. It should not be a
chance to give expression to our primordial sectarian prejudices, but an
opportunity for us to showcase the best humanity can offer in honesty,
humility, service, justice, equality, tolerance and probity. This has not been
the case in Nigeria and it is time for people like Obasanjo to show some
humility and remorse for the mess they have made of Nigeria and stop over
heating the polity because they want to have their way
Obasanjo instead writes a disingenuous letter to the
President and leak it to the media to create the maximum sensation, which is
part of his well-known plot to bring down the man he made because he has lost
out (as usual). What the chicken cannot eat, it will scatter.
Obasanjo wrote and leaked this letter to the media
to raise a mob action against Jonathan; a crafty follow-up to the rebellion he
used the governors he planted in the states to stir in their party, all in
efforts to stop Jonathan in 2015.
People
often say we should take the message and forget the messenger. As far as we are
concerned, there is little in the letter Obasanjo wrote to Jonathan that is
worth taking. It is a windy, convoluted, hypocritical hogwash!
Obasanjo instead of writing a sanctimonious
letter to Nigerians under the guise of righting to the President should be
apologising to Nigerians for unleashing evil on them. The Nigerian government
and general assembly should look at the matters raised here and commerce a
major investigating of Obasanjo and his corrupt cronies deeds. Obasanjo should
be in prison now.
.Obasanjo’s
letter to President Jonathan is a desperate attempt to stop Jonathan from
contesting in 2015, so that Obasanjo can install a northerner as another
President of Nigeria so that they call off their attack dogs and claim to be
the only ones who can bring peace to Nigeria, It is a high octane
political move to force Jonathan to abandon his plans to contest in 2015.
Obasanjo knows the Nigerian constitution, if all the allegations he made
are true, why did he not present them to the national assembly to investigate
and if valid, institute impeachment proceeding against Jonathan.
Obasanjo chose Jonathan for the very reasons
he is now complaining and condemning his leadership. He chose him because; he
thought he was a quiet man who he could control from his Ota farm.
Unfortunately for him, he has found out that even though Jonathan is a quiet
man and appears naive to some extent in power play, he is his own man and has
his own mind and agenda. Obasanjo seems to find it hard to accept that Jonathan
knows what he wants to do with the power which is now in his hands. As a general,
Obasanjo is now crying about how he underestimated Jonathan and so has decided
to go on the offensive. Obasanjo’s letter is not an advice from a
friend, it is a killer shot from a disgruntled benefactor who is trying to
destroy who he made.
. However, the question remains, what is Obasanjo’s true
motive for delivering this killer punch to Jonathan at this time? It is
difficult to see the evidence that Obasanjo is motivated by the higher values
he appealed to in his criticisms of the leadership of Jonathan. It would seem
that he is motivated by his legendary huge ego, selfish and sectarian
considerations which have guided his politics.
If Obasanjo is patriotic as he claims,
and loves Nigeria as he stated; why did he do the things he did, when he was in
power? Why did he not do more to lay the foundation of a transparent and
accountable democracy? Why was he rigging elections in favour of PDP and
disenfranchising Nigerian voters?
Why did Obasanjo not empower EFCC
sufficiently and made it independent to enable it function effectively as an
anti-graft organisation? Why did Obasanjo allow EFCC to be under the
Presidency and used it as instrument to pursue his political enemies?
Why was Obasanjo selective in his fight
against corruption? Why did he not lead by example? Why has Obasanjo not
accounted for his stupendous wealth? Why did Obasanjo do nothing when
northern governors declared Islamic state in north Nigeria?
When there has been overt abuse of power in
the administration of Jonathan, he has not defended them, but acted quickly to
remedy them, unlike in the time of Obasanjo, when he paid no attention to
whatever anybody said. Obasanjo is a leader who thinks he knows everything,
while Jonathan is a leader who knows that no one knows everything. It is
inevitable that sooner, rather than later, they would disagree on methods.
We are glad that the government of Jonathan has learnt to accept
criticism, but it is also important for critiques to accept that the government
has a right to have its way. This is how democracy works.
When critics become subversive and seek to
undermine the ability of the government to govern, it is time for the President
Jonathan’s government to use every legal means to preserve its right to do what
it considers to be in the best interest of the country, irrespective of what
the critics say. Unfortunately for people like Obasanjo, they believe that one
must do as they say, because of their superior knowledge. They are not
content to have their say, they must have their way
Jonathan needs to be a fox to spot a trap
and a Lion to frighten a wolf. When one is in politics, one must know how and
when to move against those who are determined to stop you from doing what you
believe is best for the people, no matter who they are. Jonathan needs to
use the enormous power he has as Nigerian president to make Nigeria better and
deal with those who he has been trying not to offend but have now turned
against him. Jonathan need to act swiftly and assert his powers and authority,
and dispel the allegation that he is deep into corruption.
President Jonathan should realise that
no one can achieve greatness with power, if they are afraid to exercise power
to preserve their mandate, fight corruption, injustice, ensure justice and
fairness.
Chief Obasanjo should not misinterpret the
Presidents humility as weakness, because Obasanjo should be in jail by now for
sundry crimes against humanity, in Odi and Zakibiam massacres
Jonathan is a Saint when compare to
Obasanjo because Jonathan have delivered on most of his promises
Jonathan is a good man and have the right
to go for his second term and he will receive the vote and support of all
Nigerians
Nwachukwu Anthony Anakwenze
MD,MPH,MBA
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