₦airaland Forum

Obasanjo would be useless with this government...

1.) Buhari has his own mind.
2.) Buhari has stronger links with Tinubu (who hates Obasanjo).

freshdude99:
Just imagine someone's reasoning
People like you make some of us loose the urge to visit Nairaland
#pathetic! I weep for ur brain and ur unborn semen

No body cares if u don't visit nairaland .Its not like naira land is your hometown.
I will rather not take you on because you actually said the truth

Piece of bull shit, PDP is gone forever, end will come for corruption. You better defect before it's too late

juman:
You make me laugh.

Father of the nation for where?
He is destroyer of the nation.

Example of father of a nation is former Prime Minister of Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew.
Compare what the former prime minister achieved for his nation to what obasanjo did as leader.

Obasanjo led a developing country for 8 years and he developed nothing. When he was forced to leave, he brought a big problem on to the country by forcing through rigging those he believed in his mind that they cannot lead the country. But God shame him, goodluck jonathan performed better than him.

In nigeria there is nobody that can be called father of the nation, all those useless leaders that led the country are very useless people they could not build a virile, successful, reasonable and sensible country in 54 years. Habah, habah in 54 years. What a failed nation. What are useless "leaders".

Though i m not advocating that OBJ perform exellent well during his time as president, but talking about his vast experience in helms of affair in the country he govern as millitary and civillian and you can't admit that he got everything wrong under his tenure there are some things he got right which incoming goverment can still learn from. more so in the record: He successfully handover government to civillian government, He defend the unity of Nigeria, Under his government we are free of debt and we are more united as a nation than we are now..

Iamsynord:
I know y dis man is angry .
He should have been given the Ugliest Nigerian politician but OBJ took it from him ..
Owie kor Owiwi ni

Nah...Tinubu took it from him.

The same way Jesus came to earth as God in human form is the same way Obasanjo came to earth as devil in human form.

FrancisTony:
Yar'dua was successful in what ways?

1) Improving our educational sector?
2) Giving us uninterrupted power supply?
3) Fighting unemployment?
4) Making Naira strong? etc

You must be deluded if you think there has been a successful Nigeria president.

kai kai. this guy is suffering from amnesia. yaradua had a succesful administration even at his unstable health condition.

solayd:
Though i m not advocating that OBJ perform exellent well during his time as president, but talking about his vast experience in helms of affair in the country he govern as millitary and civillian and you can't admit that he got everything wrong under his tenure there are some things he got right which incoming goverment can still learn from. more so in the record: He successfully handover government to civillian government, He defend the unity of Nigeria, Under his government we are free of debt and we are more united as a nation than we are now..

In his eight years ruining of the country he could not add any value to the lifes of the people. He did not build infrastructure but he remembered to rebuild his farms and built a castle on the hill top for himself while he did not care where nigerian people live.
The failure of his government to move the country forward pushed the country to this edge of insecurity. Anyway during his presidency there were many political killings.

As president he was not interested in free and fair election.
He suppose to take more loan not paying back the debt. This country suppose to take loan up to even 300 billion dollars if possible in order to develop the basic infrastructure needed.

The man believes only in jumping around and parading himself as leader, but not interested in better living standard for nigerian peoples.

richidinho:
Nigga
U no dey shame?

Don't ever call me that again am not ur nigga am a Yoruba man pls we have culture u here

When I remember OBJ openly said GEJ was training snipers, among other poo.....SMH. I don't care why the man is saying this now, but his statement has an unprecedented political correctness. Well, keeping him in check and relegated to Ota might be one of the few good uses Tinubu would be in the incoming administration.

lomprico:
I agree!

Nonsense

Very correct! Obj is not to be trusted at all..

Obasanjo has a history. I used to be fooled by his "patriotic" interventions in national politics. The earliest I can recall was in the days of President Shehu Shagari. In 1979, Obasanjo conducted a transition to civil rule and handed over power to him at a time of oil boom. But oil prices began to take a tumble in 1982. As Nigerians began to experience the economic crunch, Obasanjo started attacking Shagari in the newspapers on a regular basis. The criticisms were timely, ahead of the 1983 elections, and the opposition parties were over the moon. Obasanjo knows the direction of the wind.

In his memoir, Beckoned to Serve, Shagari said of the coup that overthrew him: "Some public statements by General Obasanjo severely criticising the administration seemed to point to at least a tacit incitement of the military against the government." He said he tried endlessly to invite Obasanjo for discussion on the situation, especially on the national economy about which he showed some concern, but the general avoided him. He later discovered why Obasanjo had become very hostile to him. "I understand from someone close to him, however, that he had expected me to be constantly consulting him on all matters of government since he had an obsession of being a super-administrator, super-diplomat and of course a military genius," Shagari wrote.

In fairness, Obasanjo loves to savage his successors. He always packaged this obsession as patriotism. Ironically, he was quite quiet during the regime of Buhari from 1983-85. Why? Was it because, as Shagari insinuated, he knew about the coup? Or was it because Buhari ran a no-nonsense government that took no prisoners? We may never know. But Obasanjo was back in full swing when Gen. Ibrahim Babangida came to power and began to implement economic reforms that made life pretty difficult for Nigerians. It was a good opportunity for Obasanjo to jump on the stage for more theatrics. He reads the wind very well.

Obasanjo spoke eloquently about the need for the structural adjustment programme (SAP) to have a "human face". He accused Babangida's government of being "deficit" in everything: budget, finance, honour, credibility, honesty, truth. Obasanjo was at his best when June 12 election was annulled by Babangida in 1993. He read the wind and connected very well with popular sentiments. He lampooned Babangida for the annulment which plunged Nigeria into serious crisis. We all clapped for Obasanjo. But while he was giving the public a very good stage performance, we started hearing rumours that he was deeply involved in the establishment of an ING to effectively kill June 12.

A few weeks later, Obasanjo said, faraway in Zimbabwe, that the winner of the June 12 election, Bashorun MKO Abiola, was not the messiah. That was when I stopped clapping for him. I had seen enough drama. The ING was eventually installed, but it was a fictitious arrangement that allowed Gen. Sani Abacha to seize power in November 1993. Two years later, Abacha grabbed Obasanjo by the neck and dragged him to jail. To tame Obasanjo's tongue, Abacha had to concoct a coup allegation. Obasanjo himself couldn't believe that a "whole" him could be jailed in Nigeria. He would later become president in 1999 straight out of prison.

Obasanjo started his second outing by savaging his predecessor and benefactor, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, for "looting" the foreign reserves. Abubakar had, by the way, practically installed Obasanjo as president against the wishes of most pro-democracy campaigners. After spending eight years in government during which he hardly practised what he preaches, Obasanjo installed an apparently sick Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adau as president, and picked a virtually untested Jonathan as vice-president. All on Obasanjo's mind was that he would be using remote control from Ota to perpetuate himself in government, since he is Nigeria's messiah — unlike Abiola.

In his book, Accidental Public Servant, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai said Obasanjo told him and other members of his kitchen cabinet that they would be meeting regularly in Ota to define the policy direction of the Yar'Adau government. Having succeeded in amending the PDP constitution to make him the only person who could be chairman of the board of trustees (BoT), Obasanjo thought he had Yar'Adua in his pocket. The new position was designed to be superior to that of the president under the mantra of "party supremacy". It was a "mentoring" system adopted by Julius Nyerere, the late Tanzanian president, after he left power in 1985.

Writing in THISDAY under the title, "Obasanjo Goes for Nyerere Option", on December 17, 2006, I warned: "Something tells me that the whole thing about the 'coronation' of Yar’Adua is one contraption that may collapse on the heads of those who think they have found a weakling as the next president of Nigeria... anybody who thinks the man does not have a mind of his own may be making a big mistake." Not surprisingly, Yar'Adua reportedly stopped picking Obasanjo's calls barely two months after assuming power. Obasanjo hadn't learnt from his Shagari experience.

As Yar'Adua fell ill and was no longer able to function as president, Obasanjo read the wind and jumped on the stage for more theatrics. He began to openly attack Yar'Adua, apparently to deflect criticism from himself for picking a terminally ill man as president. Obasanjo hit Yar'Adua hard on his sick bed. Some people clapped for him. I did not. Rather, I wrote on January 24, 2010: "Now that he knows that the public mood is against Yar’Adua’s failure to allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan act in his absence, Obasanjo has 'aligned' with the public again, preaching honour and morality." The wind-reader is always at alert.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo worked day and night to install Jonathan as president. Obviously, he again thought he would be ruling Nigeria from Ota. But as Jonathan began to gain independence from him — even having the effrontery to revoke the PPP for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway — Obasanjo returned to drama. He has openly flirted with the opposition ahead of the 2015 elections, and those who don't know him well or choose to ignore his antecedents are popping champagne. May I seize this opportunity to warn Buhari's supporters. If Buhari becomes president and does not take instructions from Obasanjo or worship at his shrine, it may end in tears.

BY:SIMON KOLAWOLE OF THISDAY BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS