By Jide Ajani
Fresh facts emerged, at the weekend, that former President Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo is intensifying his opposition to the 2015 re-election aspiration of incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan.
This is at a time when some hawks in the Presidency are pressing for decisiveness on the part of Mr. President, with a view to clipping Obasanjo’s wings.
The latest indication about the former President’s moves are what sources described as the “series of meetings and consultations between Obasanjo and traditional rulers in the North”.
A former state governor familiar with the surreptitious movements of Obasanjo in the last one month told Sunday Vanguard: “The former president has been moving round the North under the guise of being a special guest at functions; but the real reason for his visits to the North is the series of consultations he is holding with traditional rulers across the zones – save, of course, North East geo-political zone where the dreaded Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, holds sway”.
It was learnt that Obasanjo’s latest moves are “with a view to pacifying the North which heaps on his head all the blames for the loss of its hold on power as occasioned by the death of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, a death which paved the way for the enthronement of Jonathan as president.
“What Obasanjo has come to realize is that even most of those he considers his traditional friends and confidants poke disdain at him for his role in the imposition of the late Yar’Adua and Jonathan as presidential candidate and running mate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2007, and he is very desperate to make it up to ‘his people’”.
JD:This story is kite flying.an Obasanjo who virtually imposed an ailing Yaradua on us cannot mean well for this country.He is only after his self interest.Nigeria has been kind to Obasanjo,can Obasanjo say in true conscience he has been kind to Nigeria?We should take our destiny in our hands and stop relying on ageing self opionated selfish “leaders ” to lead us to salvation
The long-and-short essence of Gen Olusegun Obasanjo is that he is Deceitful, Untrustworthy, a Back-stabber, Pseudo-nationalist/intellect, fake Pan-Africanist Bully who has no moral or spiritual scrupples and a Glutton who suffers from inferiority-psychosis, (one of the reasons he continues to be haunted and intimidated by the clout of people like late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, late M.K.O Abiola & living legend, Prof Wole Soyinka)… That’s why, even with the providential opportunity to ‘rule’ twice, he couldn’t leave behind a visible, lasting legacy !