Bombshell From El-Rufai's New Book: "Whoever Wins, I'll Run Aso Rock From My Farm" - Obasanjo
After Olusegun Obasanjo failed to secure a third term in office, he boasted that 2007and 2011 would be a "transition period", as he would run the affairs of the country from his Ota Farm, irrespective of the fact that there would be a sitting president.
This has been revealed in a recently published memoir of an Obasanjo confidant and former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, entitled "The Accidental Public Servant".
The book recounts that though former president Obasanjo had singlehandedly ensured that the late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua succeeded him in 2007, he nevertheless planned to administer the country from his Ota Farm. He described the 2007-2011period as a transition because all his pointsmen, including the "economic team", would remain in office.
El-Rufai recalls the former president telling him thus: "Well, nothing will change, you know. I will be in Ota, but we will be running things. Everything will remain the same, you know. You will remain in the government, the economic team will remain. Nothing will change. Only I will move to Ota, and Yar'Adua will be here but we will be running things."
When el-Rufai informed Obasanjo that he intended taking at least two years' break from government business, the former president responded: "OK, well I just thought I should call you and explain to you that the next four years is just a transition period. The real change in government will happen in 2011. Not now."
Obasanjo begged Atiku on his knees
El-Rufai also said in his seminal book, which will be launched at 10:30am on February 7, at the Yar'Adua Centre, Abuja, that the former president begged his deputy on "bended knees" for his political survival.

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El-rufai should write another book that will tell us what happened to NITEL when he brought in pentascope to take over. The new book should also explain how he allocated landed properties in abuja to his wives and children. He should also explain to us in that book why his company have failed to deliver on the contract awarded to it to supply PHCN prepaid meters. We are waiting. Nigeria is the only country where corruption gets amnesty like Niger delta militants.