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| FORMER PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO AND PRESIDENT MOHAMED BUHARI |
Obasanjo in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday said
the Buhari-led administration intends to use fake documents and witnesses
against him.
He stated that it was made known to his that his name has been included in
the Buhari’s “list”, and that the security of his life can no longer be
guaranteed.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo explained that he would not have given a
listening ear to the information as provided by his secret agents, but for the
fact that those who told him the information, were not known for just making
unexamined words’
He added that the desperation of Buhari’s administration to blackmail and
victimize him could be linked to his State of the Nation Special Statement on
January 23, 2018.
The Statement reads in part; ”Impeccable
security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and
that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed. According to these
informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the Nation’s security
management and close to the corridors of power, the operatives are daily
perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and
hang a crime on him.
”Ordinarily, we would not have dignified these
reports with a response but for the fact that many of these informants are not
known for flippant and frivolous talks. Secondly, this Government has
demonstrably exhibited apathy, and in some cases, encouraged by its conduct,
daily loss of lives and property in many States of the country, the office
cannot be indifferent.
“We are currently in a nation where the Number
Three citizen is currently being harangued and the Number Four citizen is
facing similar threat within the same Government they serve. There is a
groundswell of our nationals that live in fear that they could be hounded,
harassed, maimed or even killed as the battle for 2019 takes this worrisome
dimension.
“For Chief Obasanjo, this is a joke carried too
far and being someone who do not act on unofficial information, he had
cautioned all informants and adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the bestial
propositions allegedly being contemplated to cow, cage and embarrass him.
“The content of the alleged beastly designs, it
was learnt are two-fold for now. One, to seize his International Passport and
clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further
expressing angst on the pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance,
economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the
Government.
“But, since that could expose the Government to
a swath of international condemnation, embarrassment and outrage, it is said
that another plot being hatched is to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief
Obasanjo’s administration using false witnesses and documents. This will be a
re-enactment of the Abacha era in which Chief Obasanjo was one of the principal
victims.
”The same EFCC that had conducted a clinical
investigation on the activities of Obasanjo in and out of Government, it was
said, would now be made to stand down the existing report that gave Chief
Obasanjo a clean bill of health on the probes are now to get him indicted, fair
or foul for possible prosecution and persecution like it is being done to real
and perceived opponents, enemies and critics of this Government.
”Dissent is a fundamental principle on which
liberal democracy is predicated. A true democrat must be ready to live with and
accommodate dissent and opposition. While it is regrettable how the Government
has sunk in its shameless desperation to cow opposition, a resort to blackmail,
despotism and Gestapo-tactics being employed by the goons of this Government
would not hold water. And no government ever remains in power forever.
”For the record, Chief Obasanjo reiterates his
readiness to face probe again after that of the House of Representatives, the
Senate, the ICPC, and the EFCC, but before an independent, objective and
credible panel of enquiry to account for his stewardship in Government and
beyond.
”Chief Obasanjo reiterates that he has taken a
principled position to ensure that the ship of the Nigerian State does not
capsize and he remains steadfast in his resolve to turn the tide of
maladministration, poor economic management and rudderless governance model
that has tore Nigerians apart on account of religion and ethnicity which is a
great threat to our democracy’.
”We would like the Government and its
supporters to understand that no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how
well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter Chief Obasanjo from
calling a spade by its name. Chief Obasanjo is a patriot whose sole agenda is
to ensure that the country’s unity, progress and democracy are not negotiated
on the altar of incompetence and provincialism and mediocrity.
”It is important to point out that Chief
Obasanjo is one former President and Head of State who has engaged the current
administration privately and in a bilateral manner on several issues of direct
interest to the government and other matters of national concern. That channel
of private engagement remains open and continues. However, should there be the
need for public engagement, the right to free speech will always be exercised
and jealously
guarded, again in the best interest of Nigeria and the
government.”
Meanwhile President Mohammadu Buhari (the president of Nigeria)recently declared MKO ABIOLA the winner of
the 1993 election who was brutally assassinated by the then military head of
state and thereby declaring June 12th democracy day and this means
that MKO ABIOLA’S FAMILY is entatiled to all the rights and privileges that
comes with the position.
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