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Is Obasanjo not making a mistake?



Why not endorse jagaban his Yoruba broda

ElSudani:
Nigerians are amazing. I can't wrap my head around the fact that some people with a straight face are promoting a guy who couldn't run a state as the best candidate to run a country.

I tell you the truth. I really don't understand how supposedly educated adults will be supporting people that will steal theirs and their children's future.

Known thieves are contesting with questionable characters and history. Some even have drug allegations attached to their names and grown ups are promoting them. Its a shame.

Endorse a useless incompetent pandora pathological liar?
Dumbest ipob terrorist Zombidient fools.

Obasanjo is looking for a soft landing for his role in the millions of Igbos killed during the civil war.
This is as simple as abc

Coolsperm:
We Yoruba Christian's will go anywhere our social political organization Aferefe goes

Arerefe ko, so much for being a Yoruba. It is so bad that some of you have resorted to impersonation just to sell a dud.

OurBusinessIsPr:
Plans are already in full gear for PRESIDENT BUHARI TO PUBLICLY DISSOCIATE FROM TINUBU AND BAcK PETER OBI

I wouldn't be surprised if this happens. Buhari's body language shows he's not in support of TInubu

You don't know their houses go and force them na?

What Tinubu and his cartels intend to do in Nigeria should he win the election....

Tactics used by cartels include reduction of supply, price-fixing, collusive bidding, and market carving. In the majority of regions, cartels are considered illegal and promoters of anti-competitive practices. The actions of cartels hurt consumers primarily through increased prices and lack of transparency.

Nigeria cannot be allowed to be govern by gang of drug cartels.

Wake up O ye sensible Nigerians and vote for Obi-Datti


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This one was one of Tinubu's agents back then in Chicago

Tareq1105:
This campaign of drugs against Tinubu has failed just as the same faith ticket. It would rather make him more popular.

It has not failed you drug addicted urchin.
His popularity is fading in an exponential degree.

Obasanjo has spoken, Nigerians are following.

jlinkd78:
Truly PDP and APC are hypocrites here.
U ran to Obasanjo for endorsement
U didn't get that
U turned around to portray his endorsement as worthless
The question now is why u were after a worthless endorsement?

For afenifere and Obasanjo to endorse peter obi is a shame to tinubu. It doesn't look good on him

Obi is the best, we can't afford to miss this opportunity as it is now everything is just working in his favour come to think of it God hardened Tinubu heart to stick to Muslim-muslim ticket which is now working against him plus other cockroaches in his cupboard. Atiku in other way round because of selfishness in his ambition teared apart his own party knowing fully well that a house divided against itself cannot stand. So everything worked well to him that serve the Lord.

Thinkam:
Obi goes nowhere, it is easier for tinubu to stop bedwetting than Obi to win 2023 elections

Obi will drop out of the race latest January 18

Atiku is coming

Allah you don't just have sense.. Why?

Coolsperm:
We Yoruba Christian's will go anywhere our social political organization Aferefe goes

IPOB masquerading as other tribes

bennybuhari:

https://independent.ng/obis-endorsement-labour-party-asks-other-nigerian-leaders-to-emulate-obasanjo/

His endorsement will not make us to change our minds we will not vote obituary

Obj is an Igbo man. One of d unclaimed children of one time Obi of Onitsha

Only The Sensible Reasonable & Responsible Leaders in Nigeria Will Emulate Obasanjo Decision and Stand on Peter Obi Presidential Ambition

God Bless Peter Obi & Obasanjo

Obasanjo don't have such political influence as it used to be, though politics still remain a game of numbers.

Let wait to see the master of strategist among the major Contesters. Just 8 weeks to go.

Thinkam:
Obi goes nowhere, it is easier for tinubu to stop bedwetting than Obi to win 2023 elections

Obi will drop out of the race latest January 18

Atiku is coming

oloshi omo

Labor party can't even gather 50k votes in dis country

Obi will drop out of the race latest January 18

Atiku is coming [/quote]

Not December again, your eyes will soon clear

jlinkd78:
Truly PDP and APC are hypocrites here.
U ran to Obasanjo for endorsement
U didn't get that
U turned around to portray his endorsement as worthless
The question now is why u were after a worthless endorsement?

Why can't your Obasanjo tells them , don't come' .
That act by Obasanjo is borne of insincerity,if you don't know!
Just that most Politicians are big time liers too!

Lest Nigerian Youths Be Deceived By Obasanjo’s Sanctimony And Revisionism

Published By:

Kazeem Ugbodaga

2nd January, 2023

By Dele Alake

On the whole, the latest epistolary misadventure by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a gratuitous insult on the collective intelligence of Nigerians. In particular, his laborious attempt to prey on the innocence of much younger generation constitutes a grievous assault on public morality, seeking to force morsels of sheer falsehood down the throats of a demography perhaps too young to comprehend events which Obasanjo furiously tried to misrepresent.
It is noteworthy that it was the Obasanjo administration that abolished the teaching of history in Nigerian schools ostensibly to aid this kind of historical revisionism he routinely engages in; a decision now happily reversed by the President Muhammadu Buhari government.

Contestants for the presidential office in Nigeria routinely consult with and court Obasanjo , not because of his electoral value which is minuscule, but out of respect for his status as a former Head of State. It is, however, obvious that the man himself has no respect for that status, as he continuously embroils himself in partisan politics in a most pretentious and dishonest manner and refuses to rise to the demands of statesmanship.

In the statement entitled “My Appeal To All Nigerians Particularly Young Nigerians”, General Obasanjo (rtd) plumbed into new depth in hubris and hypocrisy never seen in all his career as political busybody after office who seems to see Nigeria as a movie where only he is the all-conquering hero while others are doomed villains. Some psychoanalysts are wont to diagnose this Obasanjo’s peculiar political affliction as post-power-withdrawal-syndrome (PPWS): false omniscience compounded by chronic inability to accept the reality of being out of political office.

Even in the US, whose variant of presidential system of government we practice, former Presidents maintain a decorous distance from government after office, opting wisely not to be a distraction to their successors. Not so the meddlesome Obasanjo.

That same mindset led him to stab MKO Abiola in the back in faraway Harare, Zimbabwe, by saying he was not “a messiah” even when most Nigerians had started viewing the winner of the June 12 polls of 1993 as the symbol of democracy after the annulment. It soon came to light that whereas a group of retired generals including Muhammadu Buhari and Theophilus Danjuma were resolute in their call for the de-annulment through the platform of a “committee of elders”, Obasanjo, the supposed “convener”, was said to have plotted the floating of an “interim government” to replace the now discredited Babangida regime.

While Obasanjo’s right to support any candidate of his choice in the forthcoming presidential polls must be recognized as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution, how condescending of him to decree his preference on Nigerians based on a cocktail of bare-faced lies and crude revisionism. In fact, there’s a widespread allegation that the latest gambit by the political busybody of Ota is part of a larger nefarious scheme to incite disorder around the country with a view to clearing the grounds for the resurrection of his favourite contraption: interim national government (ING) !

Third Term Agenda

Contrary to his posturing as a democrat who came to office for the second time at a questionable age 62 and left at 70, Obasanjo’s feverish gamble for life presidency between 2005 and 2006 was actually thwarted by a pro-democracy coalition of progressives like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and several others.

Bribes ranging from N50m to N100m (amounting to whopping N20bn of public funds) were allegedly handed over to federal lawmakers to approve a clause smuggled into the list of amendments proposed by a “confab” (hurriedly set up by Obasanjo), removing the cap on the two-term limit enshrined by the 1999 constitution. Despite the outrage expressed across the land, Obasanjo had soldiered on through his battalion of political foot soldiers. But on the day the contentious bill was to be decided, the lawmakers voted their conscience and stood firm on the side of Nigerians against Obasanjo’s imperial life presidency ambition.

Is it not therefore ironic that a man unwilling to vacate Aso Rock at 70 (in 2007) is now moralizing against anyone above age 70 aspiring for the same office today? It’s always been known that Obasanjo suffers deep insecurities manifesting in his “Mr. Too Know” antics. But never did anyone imagine that the chicken farmer would carry his accustomed charlatanism as far as arrogating medical expertise to himself as to now also be certifying who is fit or not for the rigor of office through nothing but the estimation of the eyes based on “my own personal experience”.

Obasanjo’s Waste Versus Buhari’s Prudence

While it can be said that prevailing anaemic circumstances of the world economy in 2015 were not quite favorable to the Buhari administration upon takeoff, we make bold to say that, contrary to doomsday scenario painted by Obasanjo, President Muhammadu Buhari has been more prudent in the management of the little the country has earned. How ironic that Buhari that inherited a wrecked economy in 2015 from PDP under the influence of Obasanjo is now being blamed for the hardship suffered by Nigerians, hardship that truly resulted from systemic damage inflicted by PDP’s 16 years of sustained squandermania. Discerning Nigerians surely know better. They can see and feel the relief brought about by Buhari’s rail revolution, massive investment in infrastructure like the second Niger Bridge and numerous roads built or reconstructed across the country. However, despite that oil price averaged $100 per barrel for most of the Obasanjo years and two subsequent PDP administrations, Nigeria has very little or nothing to show for it, other than tales of bare-faced looting and waste for 16 years.

Under Obasanjo’s watch, a senate panel found that national assets — indeed our common patrimony built from independence in 1960 — worth $100bn were auctioned to cronies and fronts at a ridiculous $1.3bn through a dubious privatization programme. This constituted the root of the massive joblessness in the country.

Also, House of Reps committee found that Obasanjo wasted $16bn on the so-called power projects. Rather than electricity, Nigerians experienced worst darkness. According to his deputy then and incidentally the present PDP’s flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar, “In some cases, some contractors were paid 100 percent of the contract sum’’ …without performance!

So pervasive was sleaze under Obasanjo that Atiku, while testifying before another senate committee in 2007, revealed that his boss was fond of “sending handwritten notes to PTDF (Petroleum Trust Development Fund) to release money to buy vehicles for his girlfriends”.

In one last act of moral, political and financial atrocity in 2007, Obasanjo literally commandeered captains of industry and PDP governors to Ota to raise over N7bn for the building of his personal library (memorably dubbed “Presidential Laundromat” by Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka).

For a man who enrolled in PDP in 1998 with only N20,000 reportedly in his bank account after a stint in prison, Obasanjo left power in 2007 stupendously wealthy with vast farm estates in many states and private university.

False Claim Of Mentorship

Typically, megalomaniac Obasanjo lied that the leading presidential candidates who had visited him addressed him as “mentor” and that, according to him, their respective quest for the No 1 job in the land was to continue where he stopped his “good work”. We presume that included Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It is another shameless lie by a meddlesome interloper in an orgy of self-adulation.

To start with, many will easily recall that the same Obasanjo had issued a statement shortly after the APC candidate paid him a courtesy call months back categorically stating that the visit was “non-political” in response to “misconception in a section of the media”. So, how come this contradiction now? In any case, keen watchers of political events will attest that Tinubu’s accustomed progressive leaning is antithetical to Obasanjo’s imperial messianism. It is an ideological contestation dating back to 1999.

All through Obasanjo’s eight-year imperial presidency, Tinubu’s fidelity to progressive ideology led him to challenge Obasanjo’s excesses through the instrumentality of the courts and constitutionalism. Indeed, through constant diligent litigations, Lagos under Tinubu was able to win over 13 landmark cases against the federal government at the Supreme Court that not only enriched constitutionalism but also extended the frontiers of federalism in Nigeria.

Tinubu’s opposition also manifested in his refusal to be deceived by Obasanjo’s antics in 2003 in the latter’s desperation to capture the South-west and end his personal shame as a President without political home-base. It is on record that Tinubu emerged the only Yoruba governor who survived Obasanjo’s onslaught against the entire South West. Ever so treacherous, Obasanjo betrayed the other five AD governors by rigging them out of office, with Tinubu becoming “the last man standing”.

His petty hatred for Asiwaju and lack of vision led him into scuttling the first-of-its-kind Independent Power Project (IPP) initiated by Lagos State in 1999. It also explained Obasanjo’s illegal withholding of councils fund belonging to Lagos for over two years following the creation of 37 additional council areas. Even after the Supreme Court ruling directed the release, Obasanjo continued his unconstitutional perfidy of withholding the state’s local government revenue, to punish Lagos. The funds were not released until President Umar Yar’Adua assumed power in 2007.

Indeed, the redrawing of Nigeria’s electioneering calendar is a testament of Obasanjo’s rigging inclination. Today, off-season governorship contests are organised by INEC in states like Edo, Osun, Ekiti, and Kogi due to the theft of popular mandate under Obasanjo’s watch, having declared the 2007 polls a “do or die” for his party. In Edo, Osun and Ekiti in particular, it is a well-known fact that Tinubu spear-headed the struggle to retrieve the stolen mandates through the court. So, how could Obasanjo therefore list Tinubu among his “mentees” who wish to continue where he “stopped”?

He mischievously twisted Tinubu’s ‘Emilokan’ statement before the APC presidential primaries out of context in a futile bid to de-market the APC candidate. The very poor understanding of that phrase by a supposed Yoruba (?) man will only fuel doubts already expressed in some informed quarters about Obasanjo’s roots. Tinubu made his statement within the context of the internal dynamics of APC, and the fact that he later emerged as candidate by an overwhelming majority shows that his claims are infallible. Nobody worked as hard as Tinubu to win the support of delegates during the primaries and today he is second to none in aggressively seeking the support of voters across the country to achieve success in next month’s elections. Ironically, the only concrete reason Obasanjo offers for supporting Peter Obi is that it is “the turn” of the South-East! What a contradiction!!

Capacity To Identify And Nurture Leaders

It is laughable that Obasanjo has the temerity to deem himself qualified to lecture Nigerians on who to elect as a leader. Throughout his political trajectory in public life, he has unfailingly demonstrated gross incompetence in this regard. In 1979, his military regime was designed to produce the weakest leadership in a political terrain that had such proven leadership talents as Adamu Ciroma, Aminu Kano, Maitama Sule, Waziri Ibrahim, Nnamdi Azikwe or Obafemi Awolowo among others.

In 2007, after his two-term tenure and the failure of his third term agenda, he influenced the emergence of two PDP successors who failed partly because of weak institutional foundation he had laid and partly because of their own limitations.

Obasanjo in a fit of mindless hypocrisy claims that strength and vitality are requirements for the presidency but was the same man who knew of the late good man Umaru Yar a dua’s terminal condition and still used the coercive agencies of state to impose him on Nigeria ! The late president Yar adua himself publicly acknowledged that the 2007 election under Obasanjo was extremely flawed . This is in sharp contrast to Lagos State where the Tinubu administration designed a 25-year development Masterplan for the state and inspired a succession of competent leaders who not only sustained but also improved on the legacies of Tinubu’s administration, making Lagos the fastest growing in Nigeria and the 5th largest economy in Africa today.

In endorsing Obi, Obasanjo resorted to verbose and nebulous generalities without telling Nigerians in concrete terms what were his preferred candidate’s track record of performance as governor in Anambra state.

The Shame of Anambra

Perhaps the most laughable of the megalomaniac stunts by Obasanjo was naming Peter Obi among his “mentees”. Older Nigerians and just anyone old enough to comprehend series of abominable occurrences on the political landscape around 2003 must have reacted to such claim with derisive laughter and guffaw. It is perhaps a reflection of Obasanjo’s penchant to prey on the poor memory of the average Nigerian that he now seeks to dress Obi, his one-time victim, as a “mentee”. Given the well-known facts of history, many are left wondering if it was not the same Obi that Obasanjo’s thuggish enforcer, Chris Uba, robbed of Anambra governorship in 2003. It took the refusal of Dr. Chris Ngige to surrender Anambra’s treasury to Obasanjo’s surrogates (Chris Uba and Co) for Nigerians to know that the polls were rigged in favour of PDP in Anambra at the expense of APGA’s Peter Obi. While the dirty fight lasted between the electoral robbers in Anambra, the police were implicated in a botched attempt to kidnap the then sitting Anambra governor and force him to resign from office. When that failed, hapless people of Anambra woke up one morning soon afterward to witness a reign of terror unleashed on Awka, the state capital, with Government House and other government structures either razed or vandalized by armed thugs. Fingers were pointed at Chris Uba, the self-styled “godfather of all godfathers”. While the show of shame lasted, it came to light that Uba was working for Obasanjo. When asked to clarify his relationship with Chris Ubah during a Presidential Chat transmitted live by NTA soon afterwards, Obasanjo shamelessly downplayed the infamy by describing him as an “enthusiastic party (PDP) supporter” in Anambra!

With this brazen attempt at revisionism by this political megalomaniac, discerning Nigerians are unlikely to miss the audacity of wilful mendacity. This speaks to Obasanjo’s incorrigible penchant to always twist facts, manufacture lies to launder his dirty undergarment and project himself as Nigeria’s only messiah since independence.

But informed Nigerian voters surely can see through Obasanjo’s chicanery. That is why they will not heed his self-serving call. Rather, come February 25, they will go out in large numbers and vote Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the only one among the present parade of candidates with the requisite capacity, competence and character to leap Nigeria from a country of potentials to one of greatness.

Obasanjo’s selfish plot to impose a puppet and regain his lost maniacal grip on power shall fail again . . . just as his perfidious and pernicious third term agenda!

-Dele Alake, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lagos State, is the Adviser Media, Communications and Public Affairs of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.

bennybuhari:

https://independent.ng/obis-endorsement-labour-party-asks-other-nigerian-leaders-to-emulate-obasanjo/

Peter Obi is our choice. He is the only competent candidate.

Tochi3:


Emulate competence & intergrity..PO even has more qualities

Any past Statesman who wants the best for Nigeria will definitely emulate Obasanjo...

Obasanjo must have found mumu in Obi bcoz he would not support anybody he cannot control. He doesn't like Tinubu bcoz Tinubu stood up to him and he sees Tinubu as stubborn and heady.

We're not going to vote Obi bcoz Obasanjo is selfish and greedy. I pity those obidients who thinks Obasanjo endorsement should be taken to the bank. Obasanjo doesn't have electoral value either in Ogun State or in Nigeria.

GardenOfGod:
What Tinubu and his cartels intend to do in Nigeria should he win the election....



Nigeria cannot be allowed to be govern by gang of drug cartels.

Wakr up O ye sensible Nigerians and vote for Obi-Datti

This campaign of drugs against Tinubu has failed just as the same faith ticket. It would rather make him more popular.

Bizneszz33:
Obj endorsement does really change the equation

Obasanjo just demarket Obi by his endorsement

ElSudani:
Nigerians are amazing. I can't wrap my head around the fact that some people with a straight face are promoting a guy who couldn't run a state as the best candidate to run a country.

The only reason i am not mad that some people are projecting a party that has brought Nigeria to her knee, and a candidate who can't make independent speech without talking nonsense is because i know that there are so many animals in the ZOO. It is only in the animal kingdom that this can happen. Like seriously human beings want TINUBU to continue where Buhari stoped? Obi shouldn't be voted for because he couldn't run Anambra as you said but APC and tinubu should be voted for even when they have destroyed the country that we have been managing? Does it look like you have sense?

ElSudani:
Nigerians are amazing. I can't wrap my head around the fact that some people with a straight face are promoting a guy who couldn't run a state as the best candidate to run a country.

Show evidence that Obi couldn't run anambra state well. Stop claiming what you can't prove. Only cursed people do that. Or are you a cursed person?

We know how lagos stinks like a bad mortuary depsite all the money tinubu claimed to raise for Lagos.