OBJ is simply the most egotistical and vainglorious Nigerian alive with a messiah complex to boot !!! He is simply ego-tripping again and as usual engaging in deceptive window-dressing , ala "Umoru are you alive", he himself knows, logically, will fail. Only dullards will think this trip of OBJ , put to the test of logic, is anything but self-serving. OBJ is doing this to ingratiate himself with Nigerians . He is simply playing to the gallery. Some folks should put their thinking cap on - including the OP. If we all know that Boko Haram has now being hijacked by Politicians bitter at losing out to GEJ, how does it make sense that OBJ , perhaps with more fury directed at him than even GEJ for "betraying " the North, can ever be the man to broker peace?

Lest some of you don't know it, the Northern born to rule currently hate OBJ with a passion because , as far as they are concerned, he reneged on their gentleman's agreement to "get his third term" via "scheming" GEJ into Aso Rock. It is logical the chap who was killed was silenced for giving audience to "the lord usurper" who "betrayed" the North and "robbed" the region of power. We should be pragmatic in thought. The very people OBJ made an agreement with , to gain his own uninterrupted 8 years on behalf of that agreement, will not be in a very hospitable mood towards OBJ since they feel OBJ , more than any other person, has moved the goalpost in the middle of the game. There is honour even amongst thieves.

GenBuhari:

As commander in chief, Obasanjo is merely GEJ's envoy unless you think his is acting on his own.

It is not possible for Obasanjo to meet Boko Haram, without GEJ's say so.

Now comes the question :

Is OBJ still running the government  for behind the scenes?

Indeed and this is a very desperate effort from GEJ. What I hate the most about Nigerian politics is that , perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, those who cause the problems egotistically get to pretend to be part of the solution. I am surprised no one has recognized why it was totally wrong and inflammatory for OBJ to have done this. We all know the PDP is a gang of rampaging and murderous thieves. They are not called a "nest of killers" for nothing. We also know, loosely, that there is honour even amongst thieves.

Without flogging recent [/b]history too vigorously, we know some Thieves (Atiku, IBB, Ciroma et al) have [b]directly accused other thieves of having no hounour (i.e GEJ, Anenih, OBJ et al) . The aggrieved thieves (not necessarily those mentioned above) are now thought to be fighting the "ungentlemanly" thieves with Boko Haram. What sense does it make to then send the man viewed as the arrowhead of treachery to negotiate with the aggrieved thieves?

Which of us would pour petrol on a fire if putting out the fire is our real intention? Totally ridiculous move by OBJ and GEJ that would have done nothing but heightened rancor and bad blood with how some will view the "nerve" of the presidency to send the unrepentant cause of the problem , who acted with deliberation pre-elections, to solve the problem.

Gbawe:

OBJ is simply the most egotistical and vainglorious Nigerian alive with a messiah complex to boot !!! He is simply ego-tripping again and as usual engaging in deceptive window-dressing , ala "Umoru are you alive", he himself knows, logically, will fail. Only dullards will think this trip of OBJ , put to the test of logic, is anything but self-serving. OBJ is doing this to ingratiate himself with Nigerians . He is simply playing to the gallery. Some folks should put their thinking cap on - including the OP. If we all know that Boko Haram has now being hijacked by Politicians bitter at losing out to GEJ, how does it make sense that OBJ , perhaps with more fury directed at him than even GEJ for "betraying " the North, can ever be the man to broker peace?

Lest some of you don't know it, the Northern born to rule currently hate OBJ with a passion because , as far as they are concerned, he reneged on their gentleman's agreement to "get his third term" via "scheming" GEJ into Aso Rock. It is logical the chap who was killed was silenced for giving audience to "the lord usurper" who "betrayed" the North and "robbed" the region of power. We should be pragmatic in thought. The very people OBJ made an agreement with , to gain his own uninterrupted 8 years on behalf of that agreement, will not be in a very hospitable mood towards OBJ since they feel OBJ , more than any other person, has moved the goalpost in the middle of the game. There is honour even amongst thieves.

I stopped reading after that statement. You described the man's entire life in just a sentence. I doff my hat

Gbawe:

Indeed and this is a very desperate effort from GEJ. What I hate the most about Nigerian politics is that , perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, those who cause the problems egotistically get to pretend to be part of the solution. I am surprised no one has recognized why it was totally wrong and inflammatory for OBJ to have done this. We all know the PDP is a gang of rampaging and murderous thieves. They are not called a "nest of killers" for nothing. We also know, loosely, that there is honour even amongst thieves.

Without flogging recent [/b]history too vigorously, we know some Thieves (Atiku, IBB, Ciroma et al) have [b]directly accused other thieves of having no hounour (i.e GEJ, Anenih, OBJ et al) . The aggrieved thieves (not necessarily those mentioned above) are now thought to be fighting the "ungentlemanly" thieves with Boko Haram. What sense does it make to then send the man viewed as the arrowhead of treachery to negotiate with the aggrieved thieves?

Which of us would pour petrol on a fire if putting out the fire is our real intention? Totally ridiculous move by OBJ and GEJ that would have done nothing but heightened rancor and bad blood with how some will view the "nerve" of the presidency to send the unrepentant cause of the problem , who acted with deliberation pre-elections, to solve the problem. 

You are on point!

call obj anything u want to call him,i still believe he is a great great man!!

^ people like you are either very ignorant or very well paid by obj to sing his praises. which one are you?

Which ever one he chooses,he is dum.b,his opinion is irrelevant. Obj is a plague,worse any of the egyptian plagues.

With all these pro obj comments nigeria is in deep deep trouble. One thing about a professional crook is there is always an alterior motive. If you think he went there or anywhere else to "keep the peace" you are sadly mistaken.

bestofthisyear:

With all these pro obj comments nigeria is in deep deep trouble. One thing about a professional crook is there is always an alterior motive. If you think he went there or anywhere else to "keep the peace" you are sadly mistaken.

You are totally correct my brother !!! What is going on , before all our eyes, is the struggle between undeserving thieves to control our resources for their own personal use. These thieves made their own codes, pledged their own oath and determined their "terms of engagement" , for non-compliance with agreements, without consulting you or me[b] because , as owners of Nigeria, they think we do not matter[/b] .

They are now battling each other. GEJ and OBJ are certainly not innocent . It is only those who are too ethnically bigoted and partisan who will hail GEJ and OBJ as heroes and "solutions providers" when their fellow thieves will only proclaim them as "Usurpers" and "dishonorable" . OBJ is , 100%,  part of this evil problem that is shedding innocent Nigerian blood same as he is part of most problems bedeviling Nigeria.

I wonder what it will take for Nigerians to realize that a man who does one good deed , followed by ten evil deeds, is an evil man. Nigerians , wake up. OBJ, Anenih, GEJ et al knew this was coming . Their fellow aggrieved thieves made that crystal clear to them but OBJ, GEJ, Anenih and virtually every AGIP in Nigeria chose to damn the consequences because , according to the Dinosaur mentality of some of our leaders,  "money takes care of all problems" and the lives of ordinary Nigerians is no 'biggy'. The ethnic bigots amongst us, till we all perish, should keep supporting their local champions who are very much part of the problem. We all go down in the end. Some will do well to remember that.

Nigerian Gaurdian, front page, this morning, reports how legislators ran helter-skelter over a bomb scare. Many were glad to gain more time to live lavishly , in the midst of excruciating poverty, yet they don't see their contribution to how Nigeria is on the road to perdition. Sodom and Gomorrah may actually be a haven of virtues in comparison to Nigeria currently .

the ratio of Obasanjo evil deed to good deeds is more like 10,000:1 every pervieced good deed he does is only done when he would get a direct personal benefit or reward from it.

Gbawe:



I wonder what it will take for Nigerians to realize that a man who does one good deed , followed by ten evil deeds, is an evil man.

Obj is first hero now, then GMB.

You forgot to add that he knows how to seduce and violate peoples wives.