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This man has a way of saying the truth that hurts just that this time, he seems to be in that bracket of the accused.
Someone said that the Operation Feed the Nation (OFN) of 1976 is the now Obasanjo Farms Nigeria (OFN). I don't know how true this is thiugh

EreluRoz:
Hope he hasn't forgotten he's a leader as well. Though he was a good president and we enjoyed his regime very well but he's not totally clean too.

.. Obasanjo should give account with the 26 billion dollars they gave him to revive the electricity power sector in Nigeria.. what did he do with the money...no constant electricity light in Nigeria till now

Including you... what about the 16 billion dollars given to you to revive the electricity power sector in Nigeria.. what did you do with the money...no constant electricity light supply in Nigeria

Porksupplyib:
Buhari will soon come out to share fatherly advice on how to rule the country. Just wait for it. 😆

Haha I couldn’t have said it better.

Always trying to be a Saint .
He himself deserve to be behind bars for the rest of his life.

United by the road side, driven by a single purpose.

10mobile:
Obasanjo is mad. Which good leader was he? Nigerians and their short memory. Obasanjo laid and nurtured the foundation of all these political evils we are suffering from today.

No sir, many of them are been evil looking for opportunity to manifest like mental illness

EreluRoz:
Hope he hasn't forgotten he's a leader as well. Though he was a good president and we enjoyed his regime very well but he's not totally clean too.

Whose regime? Maybe you were being spoonfed then

Including you !

You are suppose to be at front

10mobile:
↪ Obasanjo is mad. Which good leader was he? Nigerians and their short memory. Obasanjo laid and nurtured the foundation of all these political evils we are suffering from today.

No mind these wicked people! The corruption and godfatherism carpet laid down by Obasanjo atop the new Nigerian democracy is part reason why Nigeria is where it is today.

Obasanjo is better than the drug lord. At least we knows his history, his home town. Everybody knows him. Can we say the same for the Baron?

Ol'soldier never die

EreluRoz:
Hope he hasn't forgotten he's a leader as well. Though he was a good president and we enjoyed his regime very well but he's not totally clean too.

You saying this simply means that you weren't born during his tenure

Obasanjo should get life in prison with hard labour

consize:
i swear the revisionism on this thread is crazy, Nigerians easily forget o. He should be first in line for arrest also

Well said. The problem is not only short memory but hypocrisy. Else how can a normal human being in his right senses adjudge Obasanjo as a good leader with all the killing of innocent civilians in Odi and Zakibiam, sinking of $16bn in power sector reforms which delivered more darkness, introduction of bribery to the floor of the National Assembly, and other numerous evils?

countryman13:
How did he laid it oooo?

Thanks for asking. Tell me any corruption practices in Nigeria that didn't start with Obasanjo? For example, election rigging, thuggery, or hooliganism? Stifling the media and public opinion? Embezzlement of public fund (remember the $19 billion power sector waste for example?), killing of innocent citizens in Oodi or Bayelsa, etc? Let this person help you to answer your question...

mastermaestro:
I wonder why many paint Obj as a legend. He singlehandedly laid the dysfunctional system we have today. Obj is the father of rotten Nigeria. Maybe we should talk about the elections he oversaw, the power sector financial sinkhole, the broken judiciary, the enslavement of the legislative arm to the executive, and many more. Dude completely destroyed our institutions.

He should be the first person in jail. This was a man who could have followed the path of South Africa's Nelson Mandela. No, he chose villainy instead. Shame!

Lanruze:
President Olusegun Obasanjo is one of the few Nigerian Leaders who posterity will Judge fairly. He had one of the most nationalistic ideals and ran the most prosperous Government since Post '99 democratic rule.

He recruited the best talents from the diaspora which some of them where Okonjo- Iweala (PhD), Prof. Charles Soludo, Prof. Dora Akinyuli, Moses Kpako (PhD), Akinwunmi Adesina(PhD), Oby-Ezekwensili (PhD) etc.

They together ran the most prosperous Nigerian economy leaving behind a staggering $60B in the foreign reserve and clearing of the external multilateral debt of Nigeria to Zero

The major catch to Obj is that he is not a tribal and ethnic bigot an his appointments were balanced.

Once he notes a subject, I suggest rather than dispel it he should be given audience. Corruption will kill this Government if not tackled with care.

A non tribal bigot who ordered the massacre of innocent civilians in other regions on the excuse that security men on duty were murdered in those regions but when security men were also murdered in his own region, he couldn't order similar massacre of innocent civilians there. The biggest fraud in the politics of Nigeria is the ascribing of detribalization to any politician.

Very true the nigerian society is a very rotten one that's why it produced a notorious drug lord as it's president.

Chikel20000:
I don't know y people always call Yaraauda.....he didnt do much so I am not impressed

My brother, the this Yaradua thing remains a puzzle to me. I have tried and tried to see exactly how Yaradua was different from the rest but can't still see it. I have no doubt that if Abacha had spent only three months in Aso Rock and died, he too would have been said to be Nigeria's best and most honest president whom death and the forces against a prosperous Nigeria snatched away. Remember that Murtala Mohamed spent about six months in office and he is adjuded as as the man who would have changed Nigeria despite the evils he committed before and while in office.
I recall that when the victory of Segun Oni of Ekiti State was annulled by the Appeal Court and a rerun ordered, Yaradua went to Ekiti to campaign for him and in the process raised Segun Oni's hand and declared that he would be the first governor to spend more than eight years in office obviously in the calculation that he would win through rigging and be resworn in for two more terms in addition to the two years he had already spent in power before the court annulment. That was before the constitution was amended that such reelected governors' terms would belly the time spent before annulment of their Victories. A president who was building an expectation on a constitutional error is who some folks celebrate today as honest and well intentioned. The same Yaradua who was first to sign into law the Shariah code of conduct as Katsina governor despite the constitution declaring Nigeria a secular state. The same Yaradua ordered the second Niger Delta massacre of innocent civilians this time in Oporoza, Delta State is whom people term a saint. It is clear that the average Nigerian does not base his opinion on facts and reason once it comes to political conversations.

worksmart:
Obasanjo should receive the longest jail sentence.

His administration introduced our flawed constitution and failed democracy.

Most challenges we face today originated from Obasanjo's tenure.

Sensible comment

anonimi:
What character does Baba Iyabo have?

Is it the character of bribing sinators and legisLooters for his failed attempt to be president forever through the 3rd term project? Or the Halliburton bribes he received?

Abi it is the character that he has for making the highest suspect in the death of his Attorney General Bola Ige’s, a sinator from Agodi prison in 2003

Are you sure that he has character at all

Don't mind them. Character obviously has a new meaning to such persons

adams123:
Yar'Adua was the best so far with his just 2 years in office.
He reduced fuel price immediately he assumed office... He told us categorically that the election that brought him to power wasn't properly conducted...
He formed government of national unity then with opposition parties.. the man was a nice man. May his soul rest in peace

You mean a man who ordered the massacre of innocent civilians in Oporoza and signed Sharia into law despite the constitutional secularity of Nigeria was a nice man?

ekhai:
I THOUGHT I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN STILL REMEMBER HIS TIME AS MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PRESIDENCY. THE NONSENSE IN THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM BEGAN FROM HIS ERA. WE'VE SOON FORGOTTEN HIS BOAST OF " THIS ELECTION IS A DO OR DIE AFFAIRS".

Thanks for this reminder. Do or die affair.

greenandy:
Lies. If Obasanjo's National Political Reforms Conference was not thwarted midway by two groups of people in the conference, Nigeria 🇳🇬 would have been shinning long before now.
Buhari said he put the recommendations of Jonathan's 2014 CONFAB in the fridge.

Please when did Obasanjo ever genuinely conduct any reforms conference?

10mobile:
Obasanjo is mad. Which good leader was he? Nigerians and their short memory. Obasanjo laid and nurtured the foundation of all these political evils we are suffering from today.

"Nigerians and their short memory"

You have said it all. This is the major source of our problem.

Obasanjo had everything with him to reshape this country but what did he do?

That Ebele, Buhari and Bola were and are disasters does not place Mathew on a different pedestal.

He was a failure!

Obasanjo is as bad as any of them. His hobnobbing with the WEF means he’s a tool used to keep Nigeria and Nigerians under the thumb of the global elite

EreluRoz:
Hope he hasn't forgotten he's a leader as well. Though he was a good president and we enjoyed his regime very well but he's not totally clean too.

Including baba himself

Deadlytruth:
A non tribal bigot who ordered the massacre of innocent civilians in other regions on the excuse that security men on duty were murdered in those regions but when security men were also murdered in his own region, he couldn't order similar massacre of innocent civilians there. The biggest fraud in the politics of Nigeria is the ascribing of detribalization to any politician.

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President Olusegun Obasanjo is eminently qualified as a statesman to comment on National Issues and talking boldly to power at all levels,

No Man born of Woman will preside over a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious country like Nigeria and wouldn't be criticised or assessed on his performance.

President Olusegun Obasanjo wasn't a perfect leader. However, please list any other Nigerian President[b] dead or alive that history has been kind to like him.

As a military man -1, He was commander of the intelligent coordinated " Third Marine Commando" which overran the Uli-Airport and had the privilege of the Biafran Forces surrendering to him through Lt. Col. Effiong. 2, Lt. Gen Olusegun Obasanjo "willingly" handed-over power as a military man to an elected Civilian Government led by Shehu Shagari.

As a civilian President Obasanjo was able to use his strong international influence to seek debt forgiveness, initiate an excess crude account, grow the foreign reserve and institutionalize the democracy in Nigeria. His administrative reforms which include the public property monetization policy which gave most civil servant access to owning their first properties across government allocated estates all over Nigeria.

The reforms during his regime were positive from Banking to Telecoms to Education and the etc.

His appointments were balanced and not tribal biased an this pitched him against his kinsmen who accused him of not developing his home state compared to other regions in Nigeria.

Although critics accused him of the Third term bid, He however had a brilliant cabinet and good team which still remains unmatched till date.

Obasanjo is qualified as a three (3) time Nigerian leader, a statesman, a military veteran and an international leader of thought.

Lalami3232:
Not just politicians, sir. Most men are fathering children that are not theirs, especially the first child and the last borns. I will only vote for a politician that will campaign about DNA test been free in 2027. You know say you no get money for DNA test and you dey go marry a non-virgin. No be juju be that?
What do I even know sef aside enlightening my fellow men nationwide with the good news.

Oga if you no meet your wife as a virgin, oga go for DNA test oooooo because boreholes a.k.a non-virgins can't be trusted atall

Recently, have you heard about a case of a woman who was married as a virgin, but later slept within 15 men, while being married??

There is no totally clean leader in the world

EreluRoz:
Hope he hasn't forgotten he's a leader as well. Though he was a good president and we enjoyed his regime very well but he's not totally clean too.

Let start from him, a lot of mess he created because of the third term agenda is still affecting us till tomorrow