Mr. Obasanjo also alleges the president has put 1000 politicians on his watch list.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan is currently keeping over 1000 people on his political watch list while also secretly training snipers and other armed personnel as well as acquiring weapons for political purposes.

He stated in an 18-page letter to Mr. Jonathan, exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, that from what had been alleged, the snipers were being trained at the same place the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, trained his own killer squad.

The former president however warned that if the allegation was true, it would not augur well for him (Jonathan), the government and Nigerians.

“Allegation of keeping over 1000 people on political watch list rather than criminal or security watch list and training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his own killers, if it is true, it cannot augur well for the initiator, the government and the people of Nigeria,” Mr. Obasanjo said in the letter dated December 2.
“Here again, there is the reason of history to learn from for anybody who cares to learn from history.”

Mr. Obasanjo said the president would always remember that he was elected to maintain security for all Nigerians and protect them, warning that no one should prepare to kill or maim them (Nigerians) for personal or political ambition or interest of anyone.
Quoting a Yoruba adage that says: “The man with whose head coconut is broken may not live to savour the taste of the succulent fruit,” Mr. Obasanjo said those who advised him (Jonathan) to go hard on those opposed to him were his worst enemies.

He added, “Democratic politics admits and is permissible of supporters and opponents. When the consequences come, those who have wrongly advised you will not be there to help carry the can. Egypt must teach some lesson.”

Apparently referring to the recent judicial freedom of Hamza Al-Mustapha, the late Chief Security Officer to Mr Abacha, the former president said the presidential assistance for a murderer to evade justice and for a presidential delegation to welcome him home could only be in bad taste generally, but particularly to the family of the victim.

He said, “Assisting criminals to evade justice cannot be part of the job of the presidency. Or, as it is viewed in some quarters, is he being recruited to do for you want he had done for Abacha in the past. Hopefully, he should have learned his lesson. Let us continue watch.”

Mr. Obasanjo did not however say if Mr. Al-Mustapha is training the snipers.

The former President recalled that in 2011, Mr. Jonathan told him he would serve for only one term, but that he (Obasanjo) later heard from other sources, including those close to the president that he had also made the same commitment somewhere.
Mr. Obasanjo said following those assurances, he threw his support behind Mr. Jonathan ahead of the 2011 presidential election.

He said that was his reason for including his support for Jonathan’s candidacy in his address at the grand finale of the President’s 2011 campaign at Eagle Square, Abuja.

“When you won the election, one of the issues you very early pursued was that of one term of six years,” Mr Obasanjo added.
“That convinced me that you meant what you told me before my speech at the campaign. Mr President, whatever may be your intention or plan, I cannot comment much on the constitutional aspect of your second term or what some people call third term. That is for both legal and judicial attention.

“But if constitutionally you are on a strong wicket if you so decide, it will be fatally morally flawed.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/151337-obasanjo-accuses-jonathan-training-arming-killer-squad-2015-elections.html

FTC...nairaland gave me a VAL gift...happy VAL DAY to everyone...hi hatters...mwuaah Who send them...all we are saying..."MARCH4BUHARI"...clueless needs to return to otuoke....

Sniper to help Booster the effort of the Nigerian army or to kill political opponents? Most of these media houses are reporting rubbish, if the government decides to clampdown on them they will be shouting oppression of press. So far I have not heard of any political killing or harassment of political opponent in this regime compare to obj time

Let them retrain Commando, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Laundgren; they will lose and after losing they will be useful in the catfish farming in otuoke has fish snipers..

Everyone is on training in nigeria today. Free gej abeg. Even me, if I see person wey go train me as a sniper, o boy, na at your service sir. No time

Jonathan will be the first to be a victim of a sniper. What goes around surely comes around.

asadike:
Everyone is on training in nigeria today. Free gej abeg. Even me, if I see person wey go train me as a sniper, o boy, na at your service sir. No time

My type of gal

Sirniyeh:
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has alleged that
President Goodluck Jonathan is currently keeping over
1000 people on his political watch list while also
secretly training snipers and other armed personnel as
well as acquiring weapons for political purposes.
He stated in an 18-page letter to Mr. Jonathan, in 2013 which
exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, that from
what had been alleged, the snipers were being trained at
the same place the late Head of State, Sani Abacha,
trained his own killer squad.
” Mr. Obasanjo said in the letter dated
December 2, 2013.
WHO IS A SNIPER?
A sniper is a highly trained marksman who
operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper
team to maintain close visual contact with
the enemy and engage targets from
concealed positions or distances exceeding
the detection capabilities of enemy
personnel. These sniper teams operate
independently, with little combat asset
support from their parent units. Snipers
typically have highly selective and specialized
training and use high-precision/special
application rifles and optics, and often have
sophisticated communication assets to feed
valuable combat information back to their
units.
Meanwhile, the reports reaching us from an anonymous source in korea prove the former President's allegation right and confirms that the 1000 snipers may likely end their training this march 20, 2015.
Another source proves to us that this was the fundamental and expensive reason why the february 14 election was postponed with clarity of Dasuki's conspiracy in the mission ahead.
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/151337-obasanjo-accuses-jonathan-training-arming-killer-squad-2015-elections.html

Lies

Think about it for a second. Does our crop of military men have any trained snipers along them? I have never heard of it. This is actually a welcome development that we should be proud of and that should be encouraged. It will be very useful in rebuilding confidence in the Nigerian army, defeating terrorism and maybe eliminating some useless politicians... I'm not totally opposed to the last option.

obj can go nd d** for all i care.

If they are Army Personnel there is no cause for alarm they are most likely headed for the NE. Moreover Korea will not agree to train non-state combatants.

This news doesn't prove much.

Let any thing not touch Buhari sha..

Without APC ,the media would have been sane

Without APC ,chibok girls would still be with their parents

Without APC ,the north would have been peaceful and their economy would have increased

Without APC ,Buhari would have retired from politics.

Since APC brainwashed Buhari,we have witnessed incessant killings of innocent people,just to discredit Gej and now they have come up with another propaganda.

What is wrong with the fg training our military personnel ?

APC is demonic,don't vote for the blood thirsty janjaweedians on horse back.


Vote wisely!

Most rumours have been denied by the pdp and they often claimed that this rumours are false alarm only for it to become a reality at the end of the day. This government is pathetic.

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berem:
Jonathan will be the first to be a victim of a sniper. What goes around surely comes around.

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If u Continue ur online rant after ur yeye apc must have lost out come March, be sure to receive a snipe shot on ur flat butto:cks

Well, this might be good news provided jonathan remains in power by march 28 with the hopes that some of those snipers can do a Simo Häyhä or Thomas plunkett on him.
Well who knows, maybe the tyrant is hiding something more sinister. Who is this dictator planning to eliminate next?


[size=15pt]Back to the topic, he's doing nothing but training an army of PDP recruites. They are all PDP supporters and GEJ is giving them military training for the election he's gonna loose. The tyrant will never go down without a fight. But get it in mind that everyone is prepared, it will be fire for fire.[/size]

Snipers!!! looking forward to march 20, I will go for their POP.

Its funny how d media has bn hijack by d Apc dat they now report rubbish just to spoil d name of gej & his chances of winning
How will Apc recover all these states money they are wasting to do these things?

Geez...people, the snipers are not for Political assassination...they are also deployed in the NE in this war against boko haram you all enjoy politicising.

Hate / like him, the president has never ordered any political killing in this country...who even do a dumb thing as killing a politician with bullets?

The former president however warned that [size=18pt]if[/size] the allegation was true, it would not augur well for him (Jonathan), the government and Nigerians.

“Allegation of keeping over 1000 people on political watch list rather than criminal or security watch list and training snipers and other armed personnel secretly and clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha trained his own killers, [size=18pt]if[/size] it is true, it cannot augur well for the initiator, the government and the people of Nigeria,” Mr. Obasanjo said in the letter dated December 2.
“Here again, there is the reason of history to learn from for anybody who cares to learn from history.”

The enlarged bold is a testament that the allegations are mere gossips liken to beer parlor conversation. Baba Obasanjo should at least try to get to the root and ascertain facts before making this public. There is something I like in Buhari, He doesn't make ALLEGATIONs emotionally. Obasanjo fall hand. How many people have been assassinated under this regime? How many people has snipers killed? Is it an offence for the Military, Police and DSS to have their own snipers in order to tackle some challenges?

Jonathan ehn

cool story.

So what is the implication of Jonathan having trained snipers? Is it wrong?

hm,

Am I the only person that hate this grandpa, Obj?

14 Years Of PDP’s Rule Disastrous – Nyako.
Out of the 14, Obj consumed 8 years of disastrous governance.
Yaradua consumed 2 years.
OBJ was busy exchanging words with music stars(Idris and Africa China) just because they sang about our situation during his rule.
OBJ should stop accusing GEJ blindly. Unfounded accusation just to remain relevant.

Just dat...OBJ pls chew gum

Lol

Old age is a disease

Bad

What is wrong with this bad blood called obasanjo ? He should let Nigeria be ! Hasn't he stolen enough ?