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obj and ibb, who get power pass?

Nigeria has become the sick man of Africa, thanks to Obj's curruption and imposition of curupt man

YORUBA !! YORUBA!!! YORUBA!!!! I weep for my people.You will never see any tribe in Nigeria drag anybody from their tribe in the mud like us I hope one day we will realise this and learn how to appreciate and rally round our elders before it is too late. After OBJ must have gone, The yorubas will find it difficult to replace him with another leader who is influential both in and outside Nigeria .My opinion though

Nawa 4 this Baba self

This is just little of obasanjo's atrocities the most controversial and corrupt politician

herzern:
Niqerians and money-influenced article....

JUST SHUT UP!!!

Sobowale, you are a fool

LordVoldemort:
Everything you wrote is true and we all know this about obj. Buh to what end?

Obj is not an enemy to this country, he did the best he could even dou he could have don more.


There is a say that keep ur friends close but keep your enemy closer.

Tell me who is the enemy of this country when a leader commit all sorts of atrocities just to hold on to power with out minding the law of the land which he swore to uphold, obj is the master of corruption.

herzern:
Niqerians and money-influenced article....

You actually have no idea who the author of this article is. I have been reading his articles frankly speaking in sunday vanguard for over 14 years now.

Nobody paid him to write what he just did. He has always written like this even before good luck became president.

Not everyone is politically deviated.

Daplux4:
Tell me who is the enemy of this country when a leader commit all sorts of atrocities just to hold on to power with out minding the law of the land which he swore to uphold, obj is the master of corruption.

True to that but you know who the Grand master of corruption is?

Buhari be careful... when the press wants to bring you down they will first of all demonize OBJ and make you his greatest enemy when you fail they will laugh at you and say they warned you not to fight OBJ. Ask GEJ he will tell you more.

Nice piece. Very insightful.

Rotentina:
Buhari received Obasanjo’s kiss of death
By Dele Sobowale

“Three or four other (sic) of us from different part (sic) of the country got together and said to ourselves what do we do?” Obasanjo, in story titled “I and others brought Buhari to salvage Nigeria”, published on August 20, 2016, by a national daily.

Forget the atrocious grammar which should have been corrected while Segun Aremu Obasanjo was a student at Baptist Boys High School, BBHS, Abeokuta. The teachers who produced the likes of Prince Bola Ajibola, CFR, former Attorney-General and World Court jurist, did their best. But, with regard to certain students, “Washing a donkey’s head is a waste of water.” (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 42).

Let us address the substance of that statement which Buhari had not refuted – perhaps because the President does not realise the danger posed to his legacy by close association with Obasanjo. The man’s touch, laid on any person, is literally poisonous. This is one revelation, if true, which Buhari needs like a shot in the head.

For a start, one of my most highly respected sages and mentor, and a founding father of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, when OBJ was still in prison for what the ABACHA regime tagged treason, had made the following observation: “If as Obasanjo claims, the four of them had brought Buhari to clean up the mess the PDP left behind in its sixteen years in power, Obasanjo served in eight of those years and so must have been responsible for half of the mess. Furthermore, Obasanjo laid the foundation for the corruption which charcterised his administration from 1999 to 2007. He single-handedly imposed Yar’Adua and Jonathan on the nation.

The two presidents he imposed added to the mess. Who is this man to be talking?” Well, the answer to who is this man is a long one. But, before that, Buhari needs to be asked if this is the sort of person he wants to be associated with. For every friend Baba Iyabo makes for PMB, he makes a thousand enemies – especially, in the Southwest – where, even today, Obasanjo cannot, on his own run for dog-catcher and win in a free and fair election.

Now let me present the evidence one by one as to my estimation of Obasanjo. Incidentally, most of these facts were in the public domain since 1999 and can be easily verified. First, here is the evidence on morals. Back in 2011, a verbal exchange occurred between Obasanjo and Babangida when the latter wanted to contest for the presidency after OBJ had decided to impose Jonathan. OBJ VERSUS IBB: READ THE BOOK “Babangida should be pitied and shown sympathy, rather than anger and condemnation because the old saying says a fool at 40 is a fool for ever and I would say a regret at 70 is a regret to the grave”. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

“Calling IBB “ a fool at 70” especially by a man accused by his own son of something as terrible as incest, is a compliment. Nigerians know who is truly a fool or the greatest fool of this century”. IBB’s spokesman.

Few people remember the episode. Obasanjo’s own son, Gbenga, had accused OBJ of sleeping with his daughter-in-law – Gbenga’s wife. Anyway you look at it, the story could either be true or a figment of Gbenga’s imagination. Nevertheless, if true, then Baba must have an issue. If untrue, he had raised a son who would defame his father who was accused of a heinous crime. And, he must have reasons; it is not everyday that sons accuse their fathers of incest – just to win an argument.

Is this Buhari’s bosom friend? Is this the man who gave us Buhari? God forbid and Buhari better issue a disclaimer soonest. Great statesmen are not self-centred schemers. They aim to leave lasting legacies for their people. OBJ having failed in eight years to achieve greatness attempted a third term bid and failed. Then, he schemed the country into eight years of political, social and economic disasters. First he imposed Yar’Adua who was known to be terminally ill. Then, he imposed Jonathan as the Vice President and waited for Yar’Adua to fall – hoping that he would be in position to manipulate GEJ. His failure to gain power by remote control resulted in the verbal attacks on Jonathan’s administration till the end.

By the seventh year OBJ was again on the move – in search of another stooge to impose. God forbid that Buhari is that man. His two previous successors died – Yar’Adua went six feet under and GEJ died politically. Both succumbed to the kiss of death from the same man.

Who is next? As President, Obasanjo encouraged what, in my opinion, was treason and did not punish it. His accomplices were the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the Inspector General of Police, Dr Ngige and Mr Mba. Nuhu Ribadu, it would be recalled, shut down the Plateau State House of Assembly, using police men provided by the IGP – with Obasanjo’s approval. Ribadu then took seven members of the Plateau House to Abuja, provided them protection while they proceeded to suspend sixteen members in order to get Governor Festus Dariye impeached. It required a courageous justice of the Federal Court to restore the people’s sovereignty to them. The verbal spanking Ribadu received should have been sufficient to get a honourable man – and a lawyer at that – to resign. It was pure treason OBJ-style.

Former Governor Ngige of Anambra remains the only sitting governor to be kidnapped in his own state by a bloody civilian called Mba – to who Ngige had been remitting state’s funds on a monthly basis. Ngige was kidnapped with the help of the police when he stopped paying. After regaining his freedom, the two met in Aso Rock with the President and Audu Ogbeh – who was then National Chairman of the PDP. There, a startling revelation of grievous crimes was made. Mba told Ngige “You know you did not win the election; that it was rigged.” To this Ngige answered “Yes, I know I did not win.” Meanwhile, the case about the election was in court. Obasanjo heard a confession in Aso Rock about election malpractices and did not call for the arrest of Mba and the discontinuation of Ngige’s defence of a stolen mandate. Ngige continued to use the state’s money on the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The only man present with any modicum of decency was Audu Ogbeh who wrote Obasanjo a letter asking “What happened to honour?” Obasanjo had him removed for asking for an elected president to uphold the law. Ngige is now a Buhari Minister and OBJ apparently is his friend.

Well, as the saying goes, “Show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are”. Buhari better wipe that kiss off…

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/buhari-received-obasanjos-kiss-death/

OBJ has already reputed and denied making such assertion in a speach credited to him when he travelled to taraba state.

STFUareyouG0d:
Obasanjo has no moral right whatsoever to call anybody corrupt or talk about how some people destroyed Nigeria for 16years.

Maybe he's got amnesia or he's just a shameless old man. OBJ is the alpha and omega of every problem Nigeria is going through right now

Watching him on tv talk about why Nigeria needs strong opposition party is ironic. Same OBJ who killed every opposition during his two terms as President? Same OBJ who sees anybody against his political view and ambition as enemy? Ridiculous!

na this two men killed this nation

blackpanda:
Say what u will, but Obasanjo remains a force both in the south west and nigeria at large. The man had vision for nigeria. Almost everything we enjoy now was designed by obasanjo, from railway to development of abuja to telecommunications etc.

Yes he also has his bad side, but pls dont condemn the man. He still tried, better than the dunce called jonathan!

i highly disappointed in u.... cos i can't believe a Nigerian is thinking like donkey as u do.


OBJ is the root of our problems

blackpanda:
Say what u will, but Obasanjo remains a force both in the south west and nigeria at large. The man had vision for nigeria. Almost everything we enjoy now was designed by obasanjo, from railway to development of abuja to telecommunications etc.

Yes he also has his bad side, but pls dont condemn the man. He still tried, better than the dunce called jonathan!

Greetings Boss,e be like say you no read the article wella,the op took the words right out of my mouth.If there's anybody who has bedevilled this nation since the so called democracy was fully instituted in 1999,it has to be that Man(Mr Obasanjo).Finally someone sees it as it truly is,instead of all this unreasonable pro pdp and and apc banter as well as tribalism ,e.t.c.Lets pray for our common enemies to be dealt with however God deems fit,otherwise i forsee more problems.Cheers.

One day this generation will bless GEJ. History will see to that when we're cleansed of tribalism and hate

Rotentina:
Buhari received Obasanjo’s kiss of death
By Dele Sobowale

“Three or four other (sic) of us from different part (sic) of the country got together and said to ourselves what do we do?” Obasanjo, in story titled “I and others brought Buhari to salvage Nigeria”, published on August 20, 2016, by a national daily.

Forget the atrocious grammar which should have been corrected while Segun Aremu Obasanjo was a student at Baptist Boys High School, BBHS, Abeokuta. The teachers who produced the likes of Prince Bola Ajibola, CFR, former Attorney-General and World Court jurist, did their best. But, with regard to certain students, “Washing a donkey’s head is a waste of water.” (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 42).

Let us address the substance of that statement which Buhari had not refuted – perhaps because the President does not realise the danger posed to his legacy by close association with Obasanjo. The man’s touch, laid on any person, is literally poisonous. This is one revelation, if true, which Buhari needs like a shot in the head.

For a start, one of my most highly respected sages and mentor, and a founding father of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, when OBJ was still in prison for what the ABACHA regime tagged treason, had made the following observation: “If as Obasanjo claims, the four of them had brought Buhari to clean up the mess the PDP left behind in its sixteen years in power, Obasanjo served in eight of those years and so must have been responsible for half of the mess. Furthermore, Obasanjo laid the foundation for the corruption which charcterised his administration from 1999 to 2007. He single-handedly imposed Yar’Adua and Jonathan on the nation.

The two presidents he imposed added to the mess. Who is this man to be talking?” Well, the answer to who is this man is a long one. But, before that, Buhari needs to be asked if this is the sort of person he wants to be associated with. For every friend Baba Iyabo makes for PMB, he makes a thousand enemies – especially, in the Southwest – where, even today, Obasanjo cannot, on his own run for dog-catcher and win in a free and fair election.

Now let me present the evidence one by one as to my estimation of Obasanjo. Incidentally, most of these facts were in the public domain since 1999 and can be easily verified. First, here is the evidence on morals. Back in 2011, a verbal exchange occurred between Obasanjo and Babangida when the latter wanted to contest for the presidency after OBJ had decided to impose Jonathan. OBJ VERSUS IBB: READ THE BOOK “Babangida should be pitied and shown sympathy, rather than anger and condemnation because the old saying says a fool at 40 is a fool for ever and I would say a regret at 70 is a regret to the grave”. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

“Calling IBB “ a fool at 70” especially by a man accused by his own son of something as terrible as incest, is a compliment. Nigerians know who is truly a fool or the greatest fool of this century”. IBB’s spokesman.

Few people remember the episode. Obasanjo’s own son, Gbenga, had accused OBJ of sleeping with his daughter-in-law – Gbenga’s wife. Anyway you look at it, the story could either be true or a figment of Gbenga’s imagination. Nevertheless, if true, then Baba must have an issue. If untrue, he had raised a son who would defame his father who was accused of a heinous crime. And, he must have reasons; it is not everyday that sons accuse their fathers of incest – just to win an argument.

Is this Buhari’s bosom friend? Is this the man who gave us Buhari? God forbid and Buhari better issue a disclaimer soonest. Great statesmen are not self-centred schemers. They aim to leave lasting legacies for their people. OBJ having failed in eight years to achieve greatness attempted a third term bid and failed. Then, he schemed the country into eight years of political, social and economic disasters. First he imposed Yar’Adua who was known to be terminally ill. Then, he imposed Jonathan as the Vice President and waited for Yar’Adua to fall – hoping that he would be in position to manipulate GEJ. His failure to gain power by remote control resulted in the verbal attacks on Jonathan’s administration till the end.

By the seventh year OBJ was again on the move – in search of another stooge to impose. God forbid that Buhari is that man. His two previous successors died – Yar’Adua went six feet under and GEJ died politically. Both succumbed to the kiss of death from the same man.

Who is next? As President, Obasanjo encouraged what, in my opinion, was treason and did not punish it. His accomplices were the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the Inspector General of Police, Dr Ngige and Mr Mba. Nuhu Ribadu, it would be recalled, shut down the Plateau State House of Assembly, using police men provided by the IGP – with Obasanjo’s approval. Ribadu then took seven members of the Plateau House to Abuja, provided them protection while they proceeded to suspend sixteen members in order to get Governor Festus Dariye impeached. It required a courageous justice of the Federal Court to restore the people’s sovereignty to them. The verbal spanking Ribadu received should have been sufficient to get a honourable man – and a lawyer at that – to resign. It was pure treason OBJ-style.

Former Governor Ngige of Anambra remains the only sitting governor to be kidnapped in his own state by a bloody civilian called Mba – to who Ngige had been remitting state’s funds on a monthly basis. Ngige was kidnapped with the help of the police when he stopped paying. After regaining his freedom, the two met in Aso Rock with the President and Audu Ogbeh – who was then National Chairman of the PDP. There, a startling revelation of grievous crimes was made. Mba told Ngige “You know you did not win the election; that it was rigged.” To this Ngige answered “Yes, I know I did not win.” Meanwhile, the case about the election was in court. Obasanjo heard a confession in Aso Rock about election malpractices and did not call for the arrest of Mba and the discontinuation of Ngige’s defence of a stolen mandate. Ngige continued to use the state’s money on the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The only man present with any modicum of decency was Audu Ogbeh who wrote Obasanjo a letter asking “What happened to honour?” Obasanjo had him removed for asking for an elected president to uphold the law. Ngige is now a Buhari Minister and OBJ apparently is his friend.

Well, as the saying goes, “Show me your friends, and I will tell you who you are”. Buhari better wipe that kiss off…

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/buhari-received-obasanjos-kiss-death/

Thanks Dele Sobolwale .History is good. OBJ is one of our problems

blackpanda:
Say what u will, but Obasanjo remains a force both in the south west and nigeria at large. The man had vision for nigeria. Almost everything we enjoy now was designed by obasanjo, from railway to development of abuja to telecommunications etc.

Yes he also has his bad side, but pls dont condemn the man. He still tried, better than the dunce called jonathan!

To read and understand has been your problem since old skool days...

I understand why you did not pass any exams.

nigmarelli:
Greetings Boss,e be like say you no read the article wella,the op took the words right out of my mouth.If there's anybody who has bedevilled this nation since the so called democracy was fully instituted in 1999,it has to be that Man(Mr Obasanjo).Finally someone sees it as it truly is,instead of all this unreasonable pro pdp and and apc banter as well as tribalism ,e.t.c.Lets pray for our common enemies to be dealt with however God deems fit,otherwise i forsee more problems.Cheers.

Well u are entitled to ur opinion. But even the fone/internet u are using to type this story was obj's initiative

berrystunn:
To read and understand has been your problem since old skool days...

I understand why you did not pass any exams.

If u cannot express your opinion maturedly without insults, just shut up!

herzern:
Niqerians and money-influenced article....

No, I think it should rather be: Nigerians and sentimental and childish comment.

Every true Nigerian who is open to truth know how glaring the facts in that article are especially that of Ngige and Uba(not mba).

blackpanda:
Say what u will, but Obasanjo remains a force both in the south west and nigeria at large. The man had vision for nigeria. Almost everything we enjoy now was designed by obasanjo, from railway to development of abuja to telecommunications etc.

Yes he also has his bad side, but pls dont condemn the man. He still tried, better than the dunce called jonathan!

You're entitled to your opinion, but you don't want others to express theirs, in your opinion Jonathan must be condemned, while Obj must not be condemned. Who made you a judge over the opinion of others about Obj?

Can't you guys just leave this man alone. I pity this tribe called Yoruba. A tribe which does not see anything good In their kinsmen but always castigating them for making a mistake. When did you see an Igbo man just jump on tread and rubbish the likes of Ekweme after all the atrocities.OBJ did his bit and yes he made his mistakes and so did Jonathan, right now Buhari is making his own. If the Op is so intelligent he should suggest how we are going to get out of the current recession not come and down grade his grand father's age mate. Tell us the morals of the epistle you wrote. It's useless.

herzern:
Niqerians and money-influenced article....

Everything in this article happened before our very eyes, or you were not born then?

Nice one OP. as someone stated earlier, your article lacks orgnisation.

I my opinion, you observed excessive caution in your write up. There is much more eeevil associated with this men than you have mentioned...this is just the tip of an iceberge..
secondly, i disagree that GEJ died politically, he is rather respecting himself as a stateman and being politic with his personal image. Unlike some old bungalows who doing are doing whatever it takes to remain politically relevant in this country.
In my opinion, whatever Nigeria is today, good or bad, OBJ set the ball rolling and only a leader ready to take pithy actions can fix things. Sorry PMB is not that man.

blackpanda:
Well u are entitled to ur opinion. But even the fone/internet u are using to type this story was obj's initiative

well, you too are entitled to your opinion, OBJ didnt initiate phone nor internet in nigeria. That it cam doing his tenure doesnt make him the brain or initiator of what we enjoy today.
I would have even listened to you if it was the Nitel of old that the said Obj revived, and furnished to be what the telecom sector is today.

Simply put that Obj was the president when mobile tech came knocking on our door.
That you were fixing a burnt bulb in your house when nepa brought light doesnt mean you brought the light.

Obasanjo made himself to be the worse thing ever happened to nigeria out of his thoughtless actions.

STFUareyouG0d:
Obasanjo has no moral right whatsoever to call anybody corrupt or talk about how some people destroyed Nigeria for 16years.

Maybe he's got amnesia or he's just a shameless old man. OBJ is the alpha and omega of every problem Nigeria is going through right now

Watching him on tv talk about why Nigeria needs strong opposition party is ironic. Same OBJ who killed every opposition during his two terms as President? Same OBJ who sees anybody against his political view and ambition as enemy? Ridiculous!

The funny thing is that most of his dumb kinsmen revere him and prefer him to GEJ!

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blackpanda:
Say what u will, but Obasanjo remains a force both in the south west and nigeria at large. The man had vision for nigeria. Almost everything we enjoy now was designed by obasanjo, from railway to development of abuja to telecommunications etc.

Yes he also has his bad side, but pls dont condemn the man. He still tried, better than the dunce called jonathan!