It is obvious that Chief General Olusegun Obasanjo hates Nigeria and
Nigerians with a passion. His disdain for Nigeria is immeasurable. After
his third term bid fell and collapsed like a pack of cards, he is angry
with everybody especially his estranged godson who has jettisoned him for
a more accommodating godfather? When he discovered that his many open
letters had no effect on President Jonathan whatsoever, he decided to bind
them into a book titled ‘My Watch’
Please my readers do not crucify me yet for the above statement of facts
about Chief Obasanjo. Let us cast our mind back to the year of our Lord
2010 and 2011. That was the year of the last elections in Nigeria. Chief
Olusegun Obasanjo was all over the place campaigning for the then
presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr Goodluck Jonathan. In fact that was
the year Chief Obasanjo made that his infamous statement of the election
being a “do or die affair” Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s major challenger then as
it is now is still Major General Muhammadu Buhari who unfortunately had
lost in the same elections to General Obasanjo in 2003 and Alhaji Umaru
Yar’ Adua in 2011.
Fast forward now to the year 2015, the year of another election. So many
indices have since changed since 2011. All effort made by Chief Obasanjo
to remain Chairman Board of Trustee of the PDP has failed. His effort too
to break up the PDP through the former rebel governors has still failed.
He had an anointed candidate for the PDP’s presidential election for 2015,
yet it still failed.
Goodluck Jonathan it seems has come of age and has since taken off the
yolk of OBJ off his neck. That was where the problem started. In my
article titled:-“Olusegun Obasanjo; the Frustration of a Defeated and
Failed GodFather.” which was graciously published by many media in
December 2013, it was obvious that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will bear his
fangs full blast against Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential
election.
Let us remain General Olusegun Obasanjo here of the perpetrators and
causes of the post presidential election riots of 2011 as reported by the
press both local and internationally. The author of election violence and
riots right from Adam has been Major General Muhammadu Buhari with his
unguarded utterances and his wild almajiri supporters in the far North of
Nigeria.
Dogs and Baboons will soak in blood if I lose the 2015 Presidential
election. General Muhammadu Buhari. Vanguards and Punch Newspapers
Tuesday 15th May 2012.
The following are the news headlines of major local and international news
media on Monday, 18th April 2011.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Angry opposition supporters in Nigeria’s mostly
Muslim north set fire to homes bearing ruling party banners Monday and
heavy gunfire rang out in several towns as election officials released
results showing the Christian incumbent had gained an insurmountable lead.
Results from Saturday’s election released live on national television
indicated President Goodluck Jonathan had a commanding lead of more than
10 million votes with only two states left to be announced. The Muslim
north had largely voted for former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari widely
believed to be a Muslim fanatic.
BBC World Service: Riots have broken out across northern Nigeria as
presidential poll results show Goodluck Jonathan is set to win.
Homes of supporters of Mr Jonathan, the incumbent, were attacked in the
cities of Kano and Kaduna.
Young Muslim supporters of Muhammadu Buhari, who is popular in the north,
have been clashing with police and military. They feel that the elections
have been rigged in some areas of the south.
There are unconfirmed reports that people have died in the violence.
President Jonathan has called for an end to the disturbances, saying
“no-one’s political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian”.
With nearly all the votes counted, People’s Democratic Party (PDP)
candidate Mr Jonathan – a Christian from the oil-producing Niger Delta –
has almost twice the number of his main rival.
The African Union observer team said it was Nigeria’s best poll for decades.
(Reuters) – Post-election riots in northern Nigeria have killed at least
50 people in major cities alone, according to a tally from witnesses and
rescue workers, but the overall death toll is believed to be much higher.
Hundreds have been injured and thousands displaced by violence across the
mostly-Muslim north after President Goodluck Jonathan won weekend
elections. His rival, northerner and ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari,
says the vote was rigged.
Looking at the above headlines and even the way the supporters of Major
General Buhari still behave as they have shown in Bauchi, Gombe, Yola,
Kaduna, Kano and even Abuja shows clearly that General Buhari and his
supporters are violent people.
It is clear without doubt that Dr Goodluck Jonathan will clearly and
surely win the 2015 presidential election with a landslide. Chief Obasanjo
will not vote anyway. He can only make noise and that is it.
As Nigerian, we cannot trust General Buhari with our collective destiny
for now because of his antecedence as an Islamic fundamentalist.
Secondly his new associates, benefactors and sponsors like Bola Tinubu,
Rotimi Amaechi, Bukola Saraki are the global face of corruption from
Nigeria.
Major General Muhammadu Buhari is not a man of honour and not a man of his
words. He cried openly and wept profusely during his world press
conference in April 2011 that he will not contest any election in Nigeria
again. This is in addition to the fact that he served under the most
corrupt government in living memory of Nigerians under General Sani Abacha
as PTF chairman. He has gone back to his vomit and has swallowed his words
and is contesting again in 2015!
Most importunately, those of us from the North are aware of General
Buhari’s overt and covert support of Boko Haram. He has always referred to
them as so called ‘Boko Haram’ in all his speeches. He has never come out
to condemn Boko Haram atrocities especially again the Northern
Christians.
Major General Mohammadu Buhari is not electable for the following reasons:-
1. General Buhari’s overt and physical support for the Boko Haram Islamic
terrorists is not in doubt as his following utterances are clear evidence.
On Thursday, November 1st 2012, Boko Haram Islamic terrorists nominated
Major General Muhammadu Buhari as the team leader of those who will
dialogue with the government on their behalf. Clearly the relationship
that Boko Haram has with Buhari could not be in doubt.
We cannot therefore submit to the Boko Haram blackmail by electing their
main backer as Nigerian president.
2. As if to confirm the special relationship he has with the Boko Haram
Islamic terrorists, General Buhari confirmed that on Sunday, June 2, 2013
in a program on Liberty FM Radio Kaduna. Vintage General Buhari confirmed
his open support for the Boko Haram terrorists when he protested
vehemently the military crackdown on the terrorists. In that interview
with LIBERTY FM Radio Kaduna, Buhari,has this to say, while the
Niger-Delta were treated like kings, the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati
Wal-Jihad which some people call Boko Haram are being killed and their
houses destroyed unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta
militants. This is injustice to Northern Nigeria.
Hear General Buhari as reported again by Punch Newspaper of Monday, 3rd
June 2013:-
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011
Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on
the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent
civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the
Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed
and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the
Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.
The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the
governors of the Niger Delta at that time wanted to win their elections,
so they recruited youths and gave guns and bullets to them to use against
their opponents to win elections by force.
This is a statement by one of Obasanjo’s boys made about General Buhari in
2010:-
We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the
entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for
only a part of Nigeria. We now understand what his protégé and former
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El’Rufai,
meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling
Nigerians that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” and that Buhari’s
”insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already
well-known.”
In summary, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s phobia of Dr Goodluck Jonathan is a
carryover of his frustration having lost his relevance in the PDP and the
Jonathan government post March 28th 2015 election.
Farewell to godfatherism in Nigerian politics post 2015 election.
Ndiameeh Babangida Babreek. (ndidi90call@gmail.com.)