Who remembers this mid 2018 alarm raised by OBJ before he suddenly fell in love again with Atiku? Can anyone connect this to his sudden role as Yoruba and Southern Nigeria Voltron? Could PMB conceivably arrest or even probe him over any of his financial and capital crimes that we all heard so much about now he has donned the toga of Messiah? This is one reason some of us discount any of his histrionics by 99%. We know Baba neither wants to go to jail for his crimes nor vomit our yams but God will continue to grant him long life and health so that he will one day pay for all he has done and continues to do against this blessed commonwealth in Jesus name.

Buhari planning to send me to jail, Obasanjo raises the alarm

Published June 8, 2018

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has raised the alarm that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has put his name on its security watchlist.

Obasanjo claimed security agencies are plotting to arrest and put him in detention.

The former president made these allegations in a statement signed by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo noted that the present administration wanted to blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of Nigerians to a better life.

The statement read in part: “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.

“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.

“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 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.

“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 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 torn 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.”

https://punchng.com/breaking-obasanjo-raises-alarm-over-his-safety/

Too long

How i wish Buhari could jail this man. You, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Saraki and a whole lot of others came together and imposed Buhari on Nigerians.
Saraki is somewhere in Abuja relaxing while Atiku is still looking for the INEC server

This is pay back time

"Chief Olusegun Obasanjo should stop acting like he is the owner of Nigeria"----Iyabo Obasanjo

Fake news.

Kingosytex:
How i wish Buhari could jail this man. You, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Saraki and a whole lot of others came together and imposed Buhari on Nigerians.
Saraki is somewhere in Abuja relaxing while Atiku is still looking for the INEC server

This is pay back time

You fell for the fake news.

How is it fake news o bros? The Punch link no work for you abi you no get data?

Xisnin:
Fake news.

biodunid:
How is it fake news o bros? The Punch link no work for you abi you no get data?

First, your resurrection of the news item is suspect.

Placing your personal opinion strategically above the real news means that you do not believe that the article supports your position.

Could PMB conceivably arrest or even probe him over any of his financial and capital crimes that we all heard so much about now he has donned the toga of Messiah?

I am tempted to ask about the financial and capital crimes OBJ allegedly committed.

Don't you agree that 4 years is more than enough time to nail him in at least one case if what "we all heard so much about"
is true?

What is even more worrisome is that you believe that Buhari can jail anybody above his pay grade on flimsy excuse.

You're Yoruba , so I approve of him to jail you.

I placed my comment about the article to point out that it wasn't current news etc but more of putting OBJ's current angst in perspective.

Can PMB put OBJ in jail? Why don't you ask OBJ who raised exactly this alarm 13 months ago? If he didn't believe his junior in the army could jail him why did he raise an alarm and why is he in panicky Samson Option mode? Didn't Abacha his junior send him to jail without even blinking?

Xisnin:


First, your resurrection of the news item is suspect.

Placing your personal opinion strategically above the real news means that you do not believe that the article supports your position.


I am tempted to ask about the financial and capital crimes OBJ allegedly committed.

Don't you agree that 4 years is more than enough time to nail him in at least one case if what "we all heard so much about"
is true?

What is even more worrisome is that you believe that Buhari can jail anybody above his pay grade on flimsy excuse.

They no born Buhari well to try am