An attempt by Buruji Kashamu, a close associate of
President Goodluck Jonathan, to stop the
publication of a three-volume book by former
President Obasanjo, appears to have failed as
SaharaReporters can confirm that the book has
gone into circulation. A source close to Mr.
Obasanjo confirmed to SaharaReporters late last
night that copies of the former president’s
exhaustive autobiography were already available to
buyers in print form. The source that the book
would soon be available in an electronic version that
is beyond the jurisdiction of Nigerian courts. SaharaReporters has already obtained and read
sections of the book scheduled for formal launch in
Nigeria in a few days.
The book, whose three volumes chronicle the life of
the controversial former president from birth till
this year, aroused political interest after
SaharaReporters exclusively reported that Mr.
Obasanjo devotes significant pages to paint an
unflattering portrait of President Jonathan. We
reported that the book characterizes Mr. Jonathan
as selfish, weak-willed, callous and incapable of
rising to the challenges of running a complex
country like Nigeria. Mr. Obasanjo also accuses the
president of surrounding himself with aides and
political associates with corrupt tendencies.
Mr. Obasanjo’s book dedicates several parts in the
book to point out some of Mr. Jonathan’s actions
and inactions he considers ill-advised or disastrous
for Nigeria. He depicts Mr. Jonathan as a man who
has not only destroyed the Peoples Democratic
Party but also led Nigeria in dire straights.
The book focuses on several instances of policy
somersaults by Mr. Jonathan as well as deliberate
actions by the incumbent president that have
imperiled Nigeria’s progress in the opinion of Mr.
Jonathan.
An Abuja-based lawyer and critic of Mr. Obasanjo
accused the former president of seeking to use the
book to earn cheap popularity, adding that Mr.
Obasanjo cannot get away from responsibility for
“sponsoring President Jonathan’s rise to political
prominence and the Presidency.”
“We have been saying it from day one that
President Goodluck Jonathan does not have the
qualities to become a true leader, but we cannot
forget that Chief Obasanjo singlehandedly put him
and the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in office,”
the lawyer said.
Mr. Obasanjo’s book also castigates former
President Umaru Yar’Adua, former Vice President
Abubakar Atiku, and former Governor James Ibori
of Delta State, Bukola Saraki, among other political
foes.
In the book, the former president also makes an
incredible claim that he was never interested in
pursuing a third term while in office.
“That is a clear lie,” said Mr. Obasanjo’s critic. “To
even deny what is so obvious to every Nigerian
shows that Chief Obasanjo has little regard for the
truth.”
www.saharareporters.com/2014/12/08/obasanjos-book-out-declares-president-jonathan-incapable-governing-well

El rufai got his chance to give an account of what transpired during Obasanjo years, Obasanjo also reserves the right to put down history from his own perspective.

Buruji Kashamu is just doing a hatchet job, the voice is the voice of Jacob. We know the hand is the hand of Esau. The Esau of Otuoke.

This is just a silly stunt from a bunch of disgrace and intellectually lazy bufoons.


2015 is here and we shall all see their ignoble end.