OBJ and the ‘Ogboju’ Syndrome, By Louis Odion

Saint OBJ continues to sermonise on morality in public office. But when he ruled, his own queer lithurgy did not see any iniquity in auctioning prized national asset and allocating oil blocs to newly incorporated Transcorp, where he had personal interest euphemistically classified as “blind trust”.

“Ogboju” is no ordinary term in Yoruba speak. It describes a false bravado by the daring in pursuit of often dubious end. It happens when the marauder is, for instance, audacious enough to turn around and blame the very crime on their supposed victim.
More and more, we are witnessing the “Ogboju” syndrome in the simmering Buhari/Obasanjo tiff. With the president suddenly breaking his own custom of silence last week by insinuating hanky panky in the multi-billion dollars power projects executed under Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s watch as president, it became clear the infantry General from Daura is simply no longer willing to turn the proverbial other cheek under relentless assault by his senior professional colleague.

Since drawing the first blood with the “letter bomb” of January, Obasanjo (OBJ) has characteristically not allowed any opportunity or platform pass without peppering President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) further with invectives least expected of a statesman of his pedig

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