Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has launched his autobiography, titled ‘My Watch’.

The book, which contains several national issues from past to present, was launched at the Lagos Country club Ikeja, Lagos, Tuesday, December 9.

Below are 7 excerpts from ‘My Watch’.

1.  “I remember that in 1978 or 1979 Chief Awolowo visited me while I was military head of state and shared with me how he would always stay at home to attend to the work at hand and only make a private visit to the UK once a year for health reasons if he became president of Nigeria.”

2. “I made it clear to the chief that once he became president of Nigeria, he could have no private visit to anywhere as such. Wherever he would be, he would be on duty, and the totality of his life would be public. I jokingly added that the only privacy he might lay claim to would be when he was at home with Mama Chief H.I.D., and that even then his security staff would be on twenty-four-hour duty.”

3. “The unprepared and unplanned transition from Yar’Adua to Jonathan was a more difficult exercise in some respects. One reason was the ‘cloak and dagger’ manner in which Yar’Adua’s illness was handled. The illness of a President cannot be regarded as private. His health has implications for the security and wellbeing of the nation. For the president and those around him to have attempted strenuously to keep the fact of the severity of his illness from public smacks of ignorance of the enormity of what the job entails and the level of provinciality of their understanding, attitude, and approach.”

4. “Do not believe the president’s words, but should only his actions. The president seems to display the habit of pretending to have no knowledge of the very things he sanctions.”

5. “The news was fairly well-circulated that an elder statesman who formed a close relationship with President Jonathan very early in his presidency came to the conclusion, after six months, that the president has not got what it takes to lead. It was the same elder statesman who reportedly tried to jolt the president into action by telling him that there were five president in Nigeria, and these were his wife the first lady, Diezani, Oduah, Ngozi and the president himself, and that he was the weakest of the five.”

6. “I understand the president tried to make excuses for everyone, but President Jonathan is not too weak to be able to butter his bread and, if necessary, to engage the services of Satan to achieve his self-centered interests on the altar of all else.”

7. “The longest period that I have met one-on-one with the president was for one hour and ten minutes. That whole time, the president talked about nothing that was in the interest of Nigeria; instead he kept pointing out his supposed enemies and various matters that would not serve his interests. I could not stop myself from blurting out: “Mr President, no Nigerian should be your enemy. You have to be like rain falling on good and bad people alike. With that experience, I was not surprised that the president went dancing twenty-four hours after the Nyanya explosion.”

Source: http://ynaija.com/dont-believe-the-presidents-words-only-his-actions-7-notable-excerpts-from-objs-book/

OBJ is not suppose to say anything about corruption in this country. Kettle calling Pot black. But No. 5 and 7 make small sense shaa.

GEJ till APC fields a credible person.

Nothing much about this FTC. Well, here in Otuoke where I'm schooling, we are yet to see the book.

Obasanjo would never stop amazing us. Well, Chinua Achebe released a book and died. May be Obj is about to ..... I no talk anything ooo. Meanwhile, see where the book has landed him at here

Shu!

No wonder a judge ruled against the publishing of the book..

very very shocking excerpt indeed

Who get link to download the book abeg. 25k can buy many cartons of orijin.

Obasanjo no well!

So what do you want us to do Can't understand that crap

So all this he didn't noticed about GEJ before he hand pick him to be yaradua running mate





I feel the former president is not telling us the whole truth about what did transpired, and about yaradua illness he did lied.. ....
Because a man that did collapse in the podium of campaigning that he had to be rushed to Germany for treatment will show that he is a man of short life span and his health can't carry the rigorous work and workload that is associated with governing a whole nation

The man did not know what next again....sorry for him

The book will expose a lot of things.

Just that Nigerians are not wise enough to grab message and ignore the messenger.


I don't like El Rufai one bit. I bought his book the Accidental Public Servant and learnt a lot about Power.


The way Obasanjo 'claimed' he handled Atiku is Legendary. A good case of Strategy and being the Boss.

hmmm.

It's only in Nigeria that a president who was openly vindictive and went to war with his perceived enemies will write about Jonathan's squirmishness of his perceived enemies.

He influenced the outcome of an election and made a very sick yaradau our president and he's blaming God knows who for not making yaradau's illness public.

Sharing the story about the non-existent elder statesman about the country being run by those women more than anything painted him as a chauvinist. Little wonder his daughter hates him.

Obasanjo ruled for 8 years and he didn't have any significant achievement in all his years as president, yet he has the mouth to criticise. This is a typical case of a pot calling kettle black!

I thought he said "autobiography" why is he referring to the present adminstration. I really want to read dis book " oya oga vendor suply am first thing tomorrow morning"

hmmmmm. oro pesi je. baba iyabo speaking in parables.

What is it with these old man,this days?

5. “The news was fairly well-circulated that an elder statesman who formed a close relationship with President Jonathan very early in his presidency came to the conclusion, after six months, that the president has not got what it takes to lead. It was the same elder statesman who reportedly tried to jolt the president into action by telling him that there were five president in Nigeria, and these were his wife the first lady, Diezani, Oduah, Ngozi and the president himself, and that he was the weakest of the five.”

Lol! GEJ is truly clueless

OBJ! My former president, I wonder when you stop all these. I love it when you chackmate political office holders but everyone know you are doing this to GEJ because of the relationship between you and him that had gone sour. But not to forget, you were no saint while you were in office.

Insightful

Nothing shocking here pls.

6. “I understand the president tried to make excuses for everyone, but President Jonathan is not too weak to be able to butter his bread and, if necessary, to engage the services of Satan to achieve his self-centered interests on the altar of all else.”

God Forbid. MY FATHER CAN NOT WORK FOR THAT FOOOOL..