https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgwQkQlitNg

Yet, we ended up with Obasanjo, the whole process ended up producing another general as president and people keep saying that you generals actually found a way to organise this transition. He was in prison and somehow he was brought out, dressed up as a civilian candidate, and became president. There is this believe that this is all arranged by the leading generals of the period.

Thank you for asking that question. I always smile and laugh when I am accused or my Government is accused of imposing Obasanjo.

Now of course we released Obasanjo and other prisoners and pardoned them. So when Obasanjo was released he came to see me, saying he was going to take the Government to Court. “Why are you going to do that?” He said his business was crumbled by the military, his human rights have been violated, that he did not commit any coup and so on and so forth. I said “Sir, please let bygone be bygone, thank God you are alive today, forget about these things. Some of the issues you mentioned, within my power I will look into that, so we left it at that”.

The next time he came to see me was to tell me that he had been approached by this group of people, they want to make him the candidate to stand for election.

I said “Sir, if I were you, please disregard this people, Sir, go home and rest and sort your health out and so on and so forth”. He said “Okay, General thank you for your advice, I will get back to you”. He never got back to me. The next I hear was that he was one of the presidential candidates.

I tried to tell people that I had nothing to do in bringing Obasanjo to contest the election. Whatever must have happened was within the political parties and so on.

But you had to rehabilitate him after prison…

Like I had all other prisoners! What do you mean by I had to rehabilitate him?

Well I am thinking of his businesses, whether he was helped with something to revive them which was one of his complaints.

Of course not only him, all people that were imprisoned in one way or the other, we tried to rehabilitate them; to help them in one way or the other. In one way or the other we did what we could to assist them, so you cannot equate that to bringing him to contest for an election.

Close allies of yours, General Babangida and General Gusau seem to have been involved in this PDP arrangement and that is why it is assumed you would be in the know and probably help here and there with the situation.

Of course I know the situation of the political parties; of course we had to intervene in one way or the other to give peace a chance. We put some conditions for the registration of political parties, in order to make peace reign we had to tinker with some of the conditions because categorically the AD did not qualify, it was only I think PDP or APP that qualified to be registered as political parties.

But if we had not done that we would still not be out of the woods. There was this agitation from the South West that they have been shortchanged and so on and so forth, so we said look, what we are trying to do is bring peace, no laws are sacrosanct, let’s see how we can tinker. So we tinkered and allowed the AD to be registered and thereby we were able to placate another area where there will be unrest and accusations; so we did.

Now if in the process of making political parties, people are jockeying here and there, please take my administration out of this tinkering. We didn’t know anything, we did not say look make A, B, C, D the presidential candidate, it is an issue between the political parties.

If as you have said Babangida, Aliyu Gusau have played a role, that must be a role they were playing with the political parties because they became members of political parties.

and yet he went ahead and even served 8 years as the president. He loot what he want. and now he is an elder stateman enjoying his looting. His children in politics like Elrufai following his part. chai Nigeria

For peace to reign they tinkered with the law and allowed AD to be registered so that the Southwest healing process can be completed since they had adopted the AD as their own political party.

But some leaders of this same Southwest today are not willing to make a single sacrifice towards the healing of a section of this country that is bleeding. They now want everything for themselves. The rest of Nigerians can go and die.

2023 is the only chance Nigerians have to bury the ghost of the civil war by ensuring that equity and fairness guides the political parties into choosing Igbo men as Presidential flagbearers.

If Tinubu and Osinbajo love this country, they should choose its corporate existence over their ill guided ambitions.

The Southwest was settled in 1999. The Southeast should be settled in 2023.

ok

Odiegwu

General Abubakar should just own up &to his mistake. He forced obj on PDP & NIGERIANS

@ Penguin2
Let me help u wit a little understanding of the article. The sw needed a political party to be able to contest. Then they helped them register AD which was not fit to be called a political party, that AD grew into AC, then ACN and now become APC with the help of a merger with CPC hence you call it Fulani/Gbegiri and ewedu party.
Maybe if y'all play the right politics with APGA it would be a platform for your people. Politics is for people with foresight and long term goals.

So OBJ is not old enough to make decisions on his own right.

Believe this and remain dumb

Penguin2:
For peace to reign they tinkered with the law and allowed AD to be registered so that the Southwest healing process can be completed since they had adopted the AD as their own political party.

But some leaders of this same Southwest today are not willing to make a single sacrifice towards the healing of a section of this country that is bleeding. They now want everything for themselves. The rest of Nigerians can go and die.

2023 is the only chance Nigerians have to bury the ghost of the civil war by ensuring that equity and fairness guides the political parties into choosing Igbo men as Presidential flagbearers.

If Tinubu and Osinbajo love this country, they should choose its corporate existence over their ill guided ambitions.

The Southwest was settled in 1999. The Southeast should be settled in 2023.

Lol. Tinubu and Osinbajo should create a party for igbos and beg igbos to contest or what do u mean

Penguin2:
For peace to reign they tinkered with the law and allowed AD to be registered so that the Southwest healing process can be completed since they had adopted the AD as their own political party.

But some leaders of this same Southwest today are not willing to make a single sacrifice towards the healing of a section of this country that is bleeding. They now want everything for themselves. The rest of Nigerians can go and die.

2023 is the only chance Nigerians have to bury the ghost of the civil war by ensuring that equity and fairness guides the political parties into choosing Igbo men as Presidential flagbearers.

If Tinubu and Osinbajo love this country, they should choose its corporate existence over their ill guided ambitions.

The Southwest was settled in 1999. The Southeast should be settled in 2023.

So you mean Tinubu and Osibanjo should forget about contesting under "Islamic and ewedu party" and let Ibos contest?? Go ahead and keep insulting people in the Southwest. It's the only way to realize your presidential aspirations and Biafra at the same time.

What a caward ..

You're begging and threatening thesame time

Uwazuruike was right

You don't have ball to throw your cap into the race but want Yorubas you insult and castigate at will to step down for your aspiration while Atiku contests.

Penguin2:
For peace to reign they tinkered with the law and allowed AD to be registered so that the Southwest healing process can be completed since they had adopted the AD as their own political party.

But some leaders of this same Southwest today are not willing to make a single sacrifice towards the healing of a section of this country that is bleeding. They now want everything for themselves. The rest of Nigerians can go and die.

2023 is the only chance Nigerians have to bury the ghost of the civil war by ensuring that equity and fairness guides the political parties into choosing Igbo men as Presidential flagbearers.

If Tinubu and Osinbajo love this country, they should choose its corporate existence over their ill guided ambitions.

The Southwest was settled in 1999. The Southeast should be settled in 2023.

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One is 69 the other is 79

Good he cleared his name that he did not impose Obasanjo. Rumor has it the election was rigged in Obasanjo's favor, that is the part I will like to know and was Abdulsalami aware?

Ok

Just trying to clean his ass and nothing more

PS: what's ratgriller below me yearning there?

Penguin2:


If Tinubu and Osinbajo love this country, they should choose its corporate existence over their ill guided ambitions.

The Southwest was settled in 1999. The Southeast should be settled in 2023.

See him mouth like settle.

It is interesting and vital to note here that the PDP which many of you wailers still proudly support and adore was in power for 16 solid years and in those years there were 4 Presidential Inaugurations and on none of those was an Igbo man found worthy by the PDP of even Vice Presidency and we are still bold to say it is the APC that has not even finished one and a half tenure that doesn't want to give power to Igbos. Odi nma. 

NOW; Seriously, let's be sincere. As things stand today politically, why would the APC even hand power to us Igbos in 2023? 
On what grounds? 
On what records?
On what politics?
is power given to anyone? 
is it an appeasement or a gift? 

The APC is a political party. The main focus of a political Party is to hold power and keep it to enable it deliver on its agenda. So if the APC reads that the SE does not want the Presidency or does not have the capacity to help them win and keep power, they will stick with the regions that can and work with individuals who are interested. 

headSmasher:
You are not penitent, you are thinking presidency is your right, and presidency is not bread or biscuits you give to children that are on rampage to stop them from going ballistic, you cannot blackmail or threaten Nigeria to hand over the presidency to you

You dey mind that pikin?
He wants to use blackmail into Presidency, so funny!
Penguin is his name, no wonder!
Now we know.

Bounceboune7:
Everybody is rooting for d south come 2023 but only some people are rooting for the north by playing "if I don't get it,u won't get it game"....when others were forming alliance and building bridges they call it slavery,ass licking n when it's time for the slave to get rewarded they remember it's their turn to eat d food d slave laboured for

You've said it all.
This is nothing but the truth.
Boy penguin, u dey see sensible people so?
You better learn from the people wiser than you here instead of curses and abuses 24/7.

Penguin2:


We are not talking about grilling vultures here.

ILoveDemMANNA:


Dem MANNA slap you with the hard truths,
Dem Give you FACTS OF LIFE visible and sensible to all and sundry.
You read it, and bow down your head in shame for embarrassing yourself online,
You had nothing to counter dem MANNA with again , then you went back to you guys to-go place,
The only thing you know how to do, when you meet people superior to you in knowledge and facts,
You resorted to your curses, abuses and what have you.
The only thing you wailers do, if someone knocks your head with the truth.
Dem MANNA, keep killing them with the truth I beg you.

Better than buhari

Aa

Who your advise epp?

This man is not saying the truth, as the head of state then there is nothing the other generals will do without notifying you.

For God sake they should have package Tinubu in 1999 to be South West presidential candidate instead of Obasanjo. Then we would not have the current problem where an old ancestor is trying to become the president.

Moral - Do wetin you won do regardless of what anybody is saying. Stop doing yourself with the advice of other people

one of the owners of the zoo

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OneCorner:

Lol. Tinubu and Osinbajo should create a party for igbos and beg igbos to contest or what do u mean

Dave Umahi is already running under APC

Okay

You are not penitent, you are thinking presidency is your right, and presidency is not bread or biscuits you give to children that are on rampage to stop them from going ballistic, you cannot blackmail or threaten Nigeria to hand over the presidency to you

Penguin2:
For peace to reign they tinkered with the law and allowed AD to be registered so that the Southwest healing process can be completed since they had adopted the AD as their own political party.

But some leaders of this same Southwest today are not willing to make a single sacrifice towards the healing of a section of this country that is bleeding. They now want everything for themselves. The rest of Nigerians can go and die.

2023 is the only chance Nigerians have to bury the ghost of the civil war by ensuring that equity and fairness guides the political parties into choosing Igbo men as Presidential flagbearers.

If Tinubu and Osinbajo love this country, they should choose its corporate existence over their ill guided ambitions.

The Southwest was settled in 1999. The Southeast should be settled in 2023.