30 EVILS OF OBASANJO. 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 1. 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 2. 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. 3. 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 has no 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? 4. Iyabo Obasanjo said that her father- Olusegun Obansanjo, is a liar, manipulator, hypocrite Remember that Obasanjo abandoned his wife and six children. 5. Obasanjo’s first son Gbenga years ago exposed his father to a bigger public ridicule years ago by claiming that he slept with his wife. Obasanjo (evil man) have no moral standing. 6. 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.” 7. Obasanjo killed several of his political enemies in the hundreds including his wife. Obasanjo is a murderer and human right abuser 8. 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! 9. In a long-awaited revelation of the main motive behind the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Muhammed (MRM), a smoking gun have been found recently. In the numerous wiki-leaks whistle blower case OBJ was fingered by a foreign government cable as one of the top officers who were lining their pockets at that time of MRM. 10. OBJ was one of those corrupt Army Generals who were scheduled to be retired because of massive corruption before the Dimka coup. The late General Murtala Muhammed (MRM) himself wanted to retire some top people in his cabinet on corruption-related issues before he was assassinated. OBJ knows something deep about the death of MRM. It would be interesting to get OBJs comment on this particular issue. He must not go to his grave without telling Nigerians the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 11. 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. 12. Obasanjo’s administrations, 1976-1979 and 1999-2007: Obasanjo seems to have forgotten too soon his squabble with his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, which made nonsense of governance. 13. Obasanjo poisoned Umaru Musa YarAdua’s food because YarAdua inherited Obasanjos kitchen staff. This was revealed from a leak cable recently (reference 08LAGOS153). It revealed that YarAdua inherited Obasanjos kitchen staff. It will be recalled that YarAdua reversal of the sale of state owned refineries drew the anger of Olusegun Obasanjo. 14. On his command thousands of Biafran children starved to death. 15. 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. 16. Obasanjo rigged all his elections during his tenure using government security agencies. It was a do or die affair for Obasanjo 17. 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! 18. 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. 19. 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. 20. 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 Ngiges 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. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. 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? 24. 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 25. Under Obasanjo’s Presidency, corruption and impunity became a way of life in the country when privileged few where given monopoly on economic powers. 26. 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 27. 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. 28. 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. 29. 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. 30. 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? Truth be told, Obasanjo’s anger with President Goodluck is based purely on his suspicion that President Goodluck might exercise his constitutional right and seek a second term in office. Is that not what democracy is all about. Jonathan Goodluck if he decides to run, should make his case to the Nigerian public, and let the public pass the ultimate judgment. Politics should not be based on unsubstantiated back room deals on who runs and for how long. Obasanjo especially in this case has no locus standi to preach to anyone on whether to run for a second term or not. Nigerians have not forgotten his chicanery when he tried to amend the constitution to seek a third term! Obasanjo has no credibility to lecture Nigerians on corruption. How exactly did he acquire his enormous wealth, it could not have been on his pension as a retired Army General and Head of State nor on his pension as a former two time civilian President. We as Nigerians recall that not too long ago during Obasanjo second stint as civilian President, KBR and its subsidiary Halliburton pleaded guilty to conspiring with its joint-venture partners and others for authorizing, promising and paying bribes to a range of Nigerian government officials, including officials of the executive branch of the Nigerian government, NNPC officials, and NLNG officials, to obtain the EPC contracts. KBR also pleaded guilty to payment of tens of millions of dollars in consulting fees to two agents for use in bribing Nigerian government officials We as Nigerians also remembered that Obasanjo did nothing to prosecute the criminals in his government nor did he do the honourable thing and resign. Instead this criminal enterprise and its permanent blight on Nigeria was swept under the rug by with the establishment of a Special Investigation panel headed by for Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro even though it declared in its Interim report that the Retired General from Ota was directly and irrefutably involved in the Halliburton bribery scandal where over $180 Million were paid as bribe to “key government officials and Politicians” including Obasanjo. As our own anti- corruption crusader Balarabe Musa said “There is a popular demand by Nigerians that the government should investigate Obasanjo’s regime because of the numerous financial atrocities committed by him. No government can be more corrupt than the government of Obasanjo. His eight years reign exposed us to the present challenges bedeviling us.” 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. 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. Nigerians in 36 states already knew that Obasanjo is a criminal and has no right to decide for them who leads Nigeria. What GEJ needs to do is ignore the buffoon and focus on working for the good of all Nigerian. Obasanjo the thief is inconsequential and must go back to prison.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:31:40 +0000
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