December 6, 2004

His Excellency,

The President, Commander-In-Chief,

Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja

RE: ANAMBRA AND RELATED MATTERS

About a month ago, the nation woke up to the shocking news of a devastating attack on Anambra State resulting in the burning down of radio and television stations, hotels, vehicles, assembly quarters, the residence of the state Chief Judge and finally, Government House, Awka. Dynamite was even applied in the exercise and all or nearly most of these in the full glare of our own police force as shown on NTA for the world to see. The operation lasted three days.

That week, in all churches and mosques, we, our party, and you as Head of Government and Leader of this Nation came under the most scathing and blithering attacks. We were singly and severally accused of connivance in action and so forth. Public anger reached its peak.

Recommendation

You set up a reconciliation committee headed by Ebonyi State Governor, Dr. Sam Egwu, and we all thought this would help calm nerves and perhaps bring about some respite. But quite clearly things are nowhere near getting better.

While the reconciliation team attempted to inspect damaged sites in Anambra, they were scared away by gun fire, further heightening public anger and disdain for us.

Bomb explosion in government house, Awka

On Tuesday, the 30th day of November, 2004, another shocking development – a reported bomb explosion in Government House Awka. Since then, the media, public discourse within and even outside of our borders, have been dominated by the most heinous and hateful of expletives against our party and your person and government. It would appear that the perpetrators of these acts are determined to stop at nothing since there has not been any visible sign of reproach from law enforcement agencies. I am now convinced that the rumours and speculations making the rounds that they are determined to kill Dr. Chris Ngige may not be unfounded.

The question now is, what would be the consequences of such a development? How do we exonerate ourselves from culpability, and worse still, how do we even hope to survive it? Mr. President, I was part of the second republic and we fell. Memories of that fall are a miserable litany of woes we suffered, escaping death only by God’s supreme mercy. Then we were suspected to have stolen all of Nigeria’s wealth. After several months in prison, some of us were freed to come back to life penniless and wretched. Many have gone to their early graves un-mourned because the public saw us all as renegades.

I am afraid we are drifting in the same direction again. In life, perception is reality and today, we are perceived in the worst light by an angry, scornful Nigerian Public for reasons which are absolutely unnecessary.

Mr. President, if I write in this vein, it is because I am deeply troubled and I can tell you that an overwhelming percentage of our party members feel the same way though many may never be able to say this to you for a variety of reasons.

But the back stops at your table and in my position, not only as Chairman but also as an old friend and loyal defender of your development programmes which I have never stopped defending, I dare to think that we can, either by omission or commission allow ourselves to crash and bring to early grief, this beautiful edifice called democracy.

On behalf of the peoples Democratic Party, I call on you to act now and bring any, and all criminal, even treasonable, activity to a halt. You and you alone, have the means. Do not hesitate. We do not have too much time to waste.

A.I. Ogbeh, OFR

National Chairman

cc: Vice President

Chairman, Board of Trustees

Speaker, House of Representatives


http://nigerianmuse.com/important_documents/?u=Ogbeh_letter_Obasanjo_Dec2004.htm

And what did OBJ do or did not do about this letter?

olabukola: And what did OBJ do or did not do about this letter?

Obasanjo forces Ogbeh to resign.

Beleaguered National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Audu Ogbeh resigned on Sunday – with a gun virtually to his head.

Ogbeh himself broke the news to the media in Abuja on Monday, citing the need to forge party cohesion as reason. But Daily Sun authoritatively learnt that the resignation was by no means voluntary, having been obtained under duress by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The chain of events that culminated in the weekend resignation began this way: The President had breezed into Ogbeh’s house around midnight on Saturday, asking the chairman rather gruffly why he had not resigned after he had earlier promised he was going to do so.

Ogbeh replied that he was still consulting and Obasanjo wanted to know when the consultation would end. When the former replied that he was still consulting, the President stormed out.
By 7.00 on Sunday morning, Audu Ogbeh was summoned to the Presidential Villa, given a sheet of paper on which to write his resignation, and he did.
He told his supporters privately yesterday that he threw in the towel at that point because he had become concerned for his life, the future of the PDP and democracy in the country.

"I did it under duress," he reportedly said. "I was not of a free mind and I do not even have a copy of the letter for myself. The kind of pressure brought on me was so much that it could easily lead to the loss of my life. The other side seemed so desperate."
The ex-chairman further said what he saw in the PDP in the past few weeks was not his own conception of politics, stressing: "It had become so deadly. I would rather be out of it and do something else with my life."

The resignation will be due by February 28.
Ogbeh’s resignation in the early hours of Sunday was the climax of power play and intrigues that began last month, following his letter to President Obasanjo on the state of affairs within the party, including the Anambra crisis.

Ogbeh by his resignation becomes the first chairman of the party whose tenure was prematurely cut short before expiration. He was due to leave office in November, this year at the party’s elective convention.
The hawks within the party, it seems, couldn’t wait any longer. And they struck.
Daily Sun gathered that the absence of Vice-President Atiku Abubakar from the country may have aided this last move to oust the party chairman who had survived two previous plots. The vice-president at the time of the ‘coup’ against Ogbeh was on official assignment in Kenya with the National Security Adviser to the president, General Aliyu Gusau [rtd].

In fact, Daily Sun sources at the state house, confirmed that the vice-president was disturbed by the development that he closed from office by 2pm Monday.
Ironically, Ogbeh denied he resigned under duress but said he had to quit for peace to reign in the party.
"With effect from February, I will not be chairman anymore. That’s all… I have been thinking of it. Let the party be at peace and grow and assert itself. I want the party to move on in harmony not in disharmony. That is why I resigned, " Ogbeh told newsmen at his residence, even as he struggled to keep a calm countenance.
Surrounded by a motley of aides, Ogbeh, dressed in a white caftan said that by resigning, he was not running away from any probe.

"Prosecution? No way. NEC will set up a committee to check its accounts because those who have been speaking on the party’s accounts do not know how party funds are managed. They have gone to the press but many of them participated in programmes which consumed a lot of money. But they have spoken. We will also speak," Ogbeh assured.

When Daily Sun visited Wadata House, PDP’s national secretariat, it looked deserted. Only a few staff of the secretariat were seen around in small groups discussing the latest development in the party. Some of them who spoke on condition of anonymity were only concerned about their unpaid monetisation allowances, and not who becomes the party’s next chairman.

It could not be ascertained what becomes of the National Working Committee [NWC] with the exit of Ogbeh. But by the party’s constitution, the deputy vice-chairman, North, Alhaji Ibrahim Safana is expected to take over the affairs of the party in an acting capacity.
In fact, Ogbeh confirmed as much when he spoke to journalists at his residence Monday. "The deputy chairman North is supposed to act when the chairman is not around. Later, the party will decide what it wants."

At Ogbeh’s residence, the atmosphere was serene, devoid of the usual beehive of activities. In fact, the security guards who kept saying that "oga no wan see anybody now" turned two Chinese visitors away. Only the FCT Minister Nasir el-Rufai was allowed to see Ogbeh. He was said to have arrived the residence at 11am and left at 1pm.

The simmering feud between Ogbeh and Obasanjo had become a public affair with a December 6, 2004 letter written by the former in which he warned on the situation in Anambra State, saying it could imperil the nation and her democracy unless the presidency acted decisively.
Ogbeh decried a situation in which the Dr. Chris Ngige–led government had been held at the throat by Chief Chris Uba and his cohorts, saying it appeared that the governor’s adversaries enjoyed the sympathy of the presidency.

The national chairman’s letter was leaked to the media, followed by Obasanjo’s reply, in which the President accused Ogbeh of bad faith and treachery. Since then, the PDP had been polarized down the middle, broken into pro-Obasanjo and pro-Ogbeh camps.
A meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) held on Tuesday last week, in which it was expected that Ogbeh would be forced to resign.

Surprisingly, however, a seeming truce was brokered and the two leaders left in the same vehicle, with the President going for lunch in Ogbeh’s house. But on Sunday, Obasanjo came out with another trick from the fireman’s bag, thus speeding the PDP further on the path of disintegration.
Before Ogbeh, Obasanjo had seen to the exit of founding PDP chairman, Chief Solomon Lar, and Chief Barnabas Gemade who succeeded him.



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St Obasanjo.
Where is ilugunboy and those devils.

The chain of events that culminated in the weekend resignation began this way: The President had breezed into Ogbeh’s house around midnight on Saturday, asking the chairman rather gruffly why he had not resigned after he had earlier promised he was going to do so.Ogbeh replied that he was still consulting and Obasanjo wanted to know when the consultation would end. When the former replied that he was still consulting, the President stormed out.By 7.00 on Sunday morning, Audu Ogbeh was summoned to the Presidential Villa, given a sheet of paper on which to write his resignation, and he did.He told his supporters privately yesterday that he threw in the towel at that point because he had become concerned for his life, the future of the PDP and democracy in the country.

Is it remotely possible Ogbeh may have issued one of those "empty threats", like..you have untill so so date to do such and such or I will resign? It sounds like Ogbeh did not deny he had promised to resign, Obj took him up on his threat.

obj the master hypocrite

OP.
Thanks a million!

OBJ is scared of Jonathans hammer on their hold on the oil wells in the Niger Delta.
They are so scared that Nigeria might really split.

[size=16pt]Obasanjo's letter to GEJ only revealed two things:

1) That he was actually plotting for Sule Lamido and Ameachi to overthrow GEJ in 2015

2) That he was the mastermind of the so called "PDP crisis" in a bit to wrestle power from GEJ[/size]

Goddex: [size=16pt]Obasanjo's letter to GEJ only revealed two things:

1) That he was actually plotting for Sule Lamido and Ameachi to overthrow GEJ in 2015

2) That he was the mastermind of the so called "PDP crisis" in a bit to wrestle power from GEJ[/size]

This is exactly what I keep telling people. Obasanjo is the architect of the PDP crisis and now that he has seen that the nPDP plot has failed, he has resorted to this.

Anybody who thinks the C in C will budge because of OBJ's letter has got something else coming.

As per the president surrounding himself with people from his neck of the wood, I'm sorry, he doesn't want to get the Ironsi treatment.

Sunny_bobo:

This is exactly what I keep telling people. Obasanjo is the architect of the PDP crisis and now that he has seen that the nPDP plot has failed, he has resorted to this.

Anybody who thinks the C in C will budge because of OBJ's letter has got something else coming.

As per the president surrounding himself with people from his neck of the wood, I'm sorry, he doesn't want to get the Ironsi treatment.

Obasanjo's stab in the back is the same, or worse than what happened to General Ironside.

noblezone: OP.
Thanks a million!

OBJ is scared of Jonathans hammer on their hold on the oil wells in the Niger Delta.
They are so scared that Nigeria might really split.

Obasanjo's coups plot against General Sani Abacha is still fresh in memory. If he's caught again, again, God Himself will show him.

Very insightful... He who is innocent should cast the first stone

THIS IS REFRESHING. THANKS OP.

Oh, I love history .

Anyone who thinks his yesterday will be forgotten is on a long thing. To be on the good side of history, whatever your hand finds to do, do it right, with all your might. Selah.

Underate GEJ at your peril.OBJ is really a hypocrite of the first order.
If he had administered this country very well,we would not be facing
this present pathetic situation in which we have found ourselves.
Obj increased the fuel pump price abitrarily several times and
Nigerian citizens became the worse for it.He used military to
subjugate and destroy Odi people.He committed several other crimes
against humanity.
Obj. Regime recorded the highest number of political assasinations ever
witnessed in this country.He presided over a very corrupt government.
He was the minister of petroleum and he saw to it that nnpc account
was shrouded in secrecy.
That pdp has a bad reputation today is attributable to obj.

He used adedibu to destabilize oyo state,installed the very corrupt
and unpopular Alao Akala over Rashidi Ladoja.He aided Chris uba
to rig election in order to favour Ngige.But unfortunately,God wasn't
on their side.
He fought orji uzo kalu and forced him to relocate his slok airline to
Gambia.
He masterminded the impeachment of senator okadigbo,the list is
endless.

Compared to oBj,GEJ is a saint.

@ op thanks for opening this thread.It wil not be well with hipocrisy.

Obasanjo is a cunning human being.don't forget this was the same thing he did dat made Abacha incarcerated him.he's lucky not to have being killed.

SW and hypocrisy they will never disappoint you

The evil that men do will always live after them. Let's sit and watch who wins the battle of supremacy. At one point in time election was a do or die affair in Nigeria, OBJ candidate must win, why has this same OBJ lost credibility in His candidate?

ckkris: St Obasanjo.
Where is ilugunboy and those devils.

Does this in anyway diminish the substance of Obj's letter Obj might not be a saint, and he never claimed to be one, but the fears and concerns he expressed in his letter are genuine and present, and even the most gullible folks can see that.

Your kind are the very people leading dumbo to the slaughter. I see a Samuel Doe like end to his reign.


God bless Nigeria.

If u guys like post 2billion old letters of OBJ, we dont believe u all and we hope GEJ and OBJ fight themselves to destruction.

You GEJ supporters have clearly lost the plot.

Can the Mods move this to the frontpage please, thank you.

Sunny_bobo: Can the Mods move this to the frontpage please, thank you.

And why should they move it to the fp

omenka:

And why should they move it to the fp

So that Nigerians can see the hypocrisy of Obasanjo.

Sunny_bobo: Can the Mods move this to the frontpage please, thank you.

This is 2013!

I'm being refreshed.

The past always have a semblance to the future

Clandestine sniper training

Overseas airman training for ex militants

Maritime security taken from Navy and given to ex militants

Oil pipeline security contract

Bayelsa guest house lodged terrorists

Ihejirika painted a model of terrorism using empty petrol tanker to smuggle high grade detonators into Yorubaland

Al Mustapha release

Al Mustapha meeting with Uwazuruike, Asari and Fasheun

Asari setting up schools and business in Yoruba backyard

If bokoharam is breaching security in important army installations and carting away ammo and armored vehicles, and lately burning and disabling fighter jets, then how does the Army not stop that knowing with the tension in the country these are the firepower they will need to silence any rebellion?


We in the West see the handwriting on the wall and we can connect the dots.

Lol

The drama is unfolding, in days and weeks to come we should expect the release of many letters written to our former heads of state.

it is the season. Naija is a theatre

Sunny_bobo:

So that Nigerians can see the hypocrisy of Obasanjo.

And then....

Sunny_bobo:

So that Nigerians can see the hypocrisy of Obasanjo.

stop being one sided,why don't you post obj's reply too? Anyway here it is on anoda thread; https://www.nairaland.com/1553670/archives-audu-ogbeh-letter-obasanjo