Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused the Buhari administration of plotting to slam false charges on him, to pave the way for his indefinite detention.


The former leader said the government was planning to use fake documents and witnesses against him.

Mr Obasanjo said this in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday.

The claim is the latest twist after weeks of bitter exchanges between the two leaders, who fell apart after Mr Obasanjo accused Mr Buhari or ineptitude and corruption, and advised him not to seek reelection.

Mr Buhari responded recently by accusing his predecessor of frittering away $16 billion on phoney electricity projects. Mr Obasanjo hit back at the “ignorant” claim.


Speaking via his aide on Friday, the former president said plans to silence him were in two fold, among which is a plot to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to reopen investigation into the activities of his administration.

He said the Buhari administration had also perfected a plan to use fake documents and witnesses against him. He said this will be a re-enactment of the Abacha era in which he ( Obasanjo) was detained on trumped up charges.

The presidency could not be immediately reached for comments.


The former president said he had been told that his name was on the government’s “watch list”, and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.

He however said no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter him from speaking out.

“Since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo declared in his State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018, the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension,” the statement said.


The statement said the first option to silence him was to seize his international passport and clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further expressing angst on the “pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance, economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the Government”.

Part of statement is below:

‘Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed. According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the Nation’s security management and close to the corridors of power, the operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and hang a crime on him’.


‘Ordinarily, we would not have dignified these reports with a response but for the fact that many of these informants are not known for flippant and frivolous talks. Secondly, this Government has demonstrably exhibited apathy, and in some cases, encouraged by its conduct, daily loss of lives and property in many States of the country, the office cannot be indifferent.

“We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is currently being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same Government they serve. There is a groundswell of our nationals that live in fear that they could be hounded, harassed, maimed or even killed as the battle for 2019 takes this worrisome dimension.


“For Chief Obasanjo, this is a joke carried too far and being someone who do not act on unofficial information, he had cautioned all informants and adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the bestial propositions allegedly being contemplated to cow, cage and embarrass him.

“The content of the alleged beastly designs, it was learnt are two-fold for now. One, to seize his International Passport and clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further expressing angst on the pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance, economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the Government.


“But, since that could expose the Government to a swath of international condemnation, embarrassment and outrage, it is said that another plot being hatched is to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo’s administration using false witnesses and documents. This will be a re-enactment of the Abacha era in which Chief Obasanjo was one of the principal victims’.

‘The same EFCC that had conducted a clinical investigation on the activities of Obasanjo in and out of Government, it was said, would now be made to stand down the existing report that gave Chief Obasanjo a clean bill of health on the probes are now to get him indicted, fair or foul for possible prosecution and persecution like it is being done to real and perceived opponents, enemies and critics of this Government’.


‘Dissent is a fundamental principle on which liberal democracy is predicated. A true democrat must be ready to live with and accommodate dissent and opposition. While it is regrettable how the Government has sunk in its shameless desperation to cow opposition, a resort to blackmail, despotism and Gestapo-tactics being employed by the goons of this Government would not hold water. And no government ever remains in power forever.

‘For the record, Chief Obasanjo reiterates his readiness to face probe again after that of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the ICPC, and the EFCC, but before an independent, objective and credible panel of enquiry to account for his stewardship in Government and beyond’.


‘Chief Obasanjo reiterates that he has taken a principled position to ensure that the ship of the Nigerian State does not capsize and he remains steadfast in his resolve to turn the tide of maladministration, poor economic management and rudderless governance model that has tore Nigerians apart on account of religion and ethnicity which is a great threat to our democracy’.

‘We would like the Government and its supporters to understand that no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter Chief Obasanjo from calling a spade by its name. Chief Obasanjo is a patriot whose sole agenda is to ensure that the country’s unity, progress and democracy are not negotiated on the altar of incompetence and provincialism and mediocrity.

‘It is important to point out that Chief Obasanjo is one former President and Head of State who has engaged the current administration privately and in a bilateral manner on several issues of direct interest to the government and other matters of national concern. That channel of private engagement remains open and continues. However, should there be the need for public engagement, the right to free speech will always be exercised and jealously guarded, again in the best interest of Nigeria and the government.

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I always try to confirm such sensitive news as this to make sure it's not a concocted news. I think this is a false flag operation to unsettle Baba Iyabo a little bit. I really do not think Buhari has the guts to give EFCC a go ahead to arrest him, but if he gets arrested, it'll be a great service to millions of Nigerians who have the interest of the country at heart and are eager to see it rise above the current status quo where certain people are seen as untouchable.

Just like Abacha his mentor did?

Erm, but eskis sah...but you told us that Buhari is the one we should vote for...

Shey ifa olokun asoro dayo don change tone ni?

But you were warned sha

Sounds fake.... Baba Iyabo can't be afraid

Baba iyabo!!! Wait,allow him to arrest you first b4 raising alarm.

Assuming this is true, you did same to others.

I'm sure this thread may soon be closed

yudee233:
Sounds fake.... Baba Iyabo can't be afraid

The fear of PMB is the beginning of wisdom

if Buhari arrest baba iyabo, I will vote him till 2027. Obasanjo's arrest will be best of buhari achievement.

He knows his limit. He dares not touch Baba

Gloriousgud:
if Buhari arrest baba iyabo, I will vote him till 2027. Obasanjo's arrest will be best of buhari achievement.

Obj is arrestable but not on false charges

kaorama:
He knows his limit. He dares not touch Baba

Both are BABAS

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Situation is getting very ugly now.
Buhari about to implode the nation rather than lose the election peacefully.

You don't need to fear if your hands are clean.

Onpe!

..........Maybe my comment won't be important for the majority of people here, some of you will ignore it, most of you won't bother to read and it'll go unnoticed along with other important comments here, or maybe I'll be criticized for this, but I just want to let y'all know that Buhari is a terrorist and a bigot.............

Mogidi:
Situation is getting very ugly now.
Buhari about to implode the nation rather than lose the election peacefully.

What is this one saying?

Mogidi:
Situation is getting very ugly now.
Buhari about to implode the nation rather than lose the election peacefully.

Implode because one useless and corrupt former head of state is being questioned for allegations of fraud while in office?

Ipob yoots are really enemies of Nigeria.

Nateben:
..........Maybe my comment won't be important for the majority of people here, some of you will ignore it, most of you won't bother to read and it'll go unnoticed along with other important comments here, or maybe I'll be criticized for this, but I just want to let y'all know that Buhari is a terrorist and a bigot.............

Is your fooooolishness hereditary?

Once you speak up against the Fulani dullard... They will find a way to frame you up

This isn't fighting corruption
This is a clear case of witch hunting

Buhari is a certified terrorist

higherpower:


Is your fooooolishness hereditary?

Is your own stupidity acquired? Why are you attacking people's opinion?

Who would ever believe that Obasanjo who ran his democratic regime as a neo-military civilian rule, would also one day lament about rights in a democracy?


It is good if current national administrations fear the probe that tomorrow will bring.

Buhari should entertain the same fears for the future where there are no sacred cows.

CilicMarin:


Implode because one useless and corrupt former head of state is being questioned for allegations of fraud while in office?

Ipob yoots are really enemies of Nigeria.

This is the beginning of dictatorship. By the time Buhari arrest and imprison one of your favorite politicians, it would be too late to tame the beast.
Where will it stop? Is he going to arrest Dr Jonathan, Ibrahim Babangida etc.

ok

June 12 wants to kill you and make you permanently unimportant.

There is nothing to fear except the consequences of your actions.

it will be very bad if buhari try to make an attempt to arrest obj. Yorubas will never forgive him. meanwhile, Senator Abaribe mocks #BUHARI proposes DECEMBER 31st as DEMOCRACY DESTRUCTION DAY,to remember the Day Buhari removed an ELECTED GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDkqEnkn7nk

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This man no they learn anything, he should go and ask his brother Abacha that jailed OBJ his first son pai, he himself pai. May be he wan follow the same route continue.

My people say the wall gecko whey they walk slowly death they catch am not to talk of frog whey the walk by knocking itself on ground. I dey gbadun this drama this one na act one scene two