{"id":62391,"date":"2018-05-30T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62391"},"modified":"2018-05-30T03:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T02:37:16","slug":"obasanjo-where-isthe-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/obasanjo-where-isthe-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo, Where IsThe Power?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FormerPresident Olusegun Obasanjo is a troubled soul. What better way to<\/div>\n
show hisrestless nature than that at a time he would have been in<\/div>\n
retirement, the oldman is hustling on the streets. At a time he was<\/div>\n
supposed to sit back and thankGod for his bountiful favours on him,<\/div>\n
Obasanjo is trudging on the roads,swearing, lying and scheming for power.<\/div>\n
Yes, at over eighty years, this fellowwho is among the few that have been<\/div>\n
hugely favored by the inchoate Nigerianstate and who has made very<\/div>\n
bountiful, corrupt harvest from that fling offortune, is still coveting<\/div>\n
political fortunes. He is still recruiting eunuchson whose back he wants<\/div>\n
to wield power after 11 years of direct control of power.He is still<\/div>\n
desirous of coming back to power through the backdoor. Nigerians<\/div>\n
understandObasanjo\u2019s trajectory better than his futile but desperate<\/div>\n
efforts to stay inpower through the infamous third term when he completed<\/div>\n
his mandatory two termsas civilian President after another three years as<\/div>\n
military head of state!<\/div>\n
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Havingrealized the fatal blunder he made in writing President Buhari and<\/div>\n
threateningto remove him from power from very selfish and egoistic<\/div>\n
considerations and withthe very rude way Nigerians reacted to his insipid<\/div>\n
letter, Obasanjo has calledhis old, ancient pride to action and instead of<\/div>\n
eating the humble pie, goinghome to rest, has decided to march the<\/div>\n
irrevocable road to destruction by goingforward with his unpopular task.<\/div>\n
Let us remember that Obasanjo vowed that hehad quit politics and would<\/div>\n
disembark from the coalition he threatened to formin his infamous letter,<\/div>\n
should it decide to transform into a political party. Yes,he has tried to<\/div>\n
give action to his threat but his effort at forming a coalitionhas met<\/div>\n
with humiliating disappointment as only a few grumpy, tired<\/div>\n
politicallightweights and his traditional hirelings and courtiers have<\/div>\n
signed on to hisjaundiced coalition. That should be added warning to<\/div>\n
Obasanjo that he isthreading the paths of self-destruct but with a<\/div>\n
character like Obasanjo, whohas a bloated impression of himself, drowning<\/div>\n
in the cesspool of hubris and egothan dismount a high horse of pride will<\/div>\n
always be a better option.\u00a0 It is obvious that Obasanjo, fired by thedeep<\/div>\n
wound of Buhari\u2019s snubbing of his letter, doesn\u2019t pretend any furtherabout<\/div>\n
respect and honour as he had proceeded further to not only turn<\/div>\n
hisso-called coalition into a political party but gallivants all over the<\/div>\n
countrywith sour, bitter tales about President Buhari\u2019s government and a<\/div>\n
threat toremove him from power come next year.\u00a0This report however, is not<\/div>\n
about Obasanjo\u2019s multi-faced personality butabout his years in power,<\/div>\n
which many Nigerians swear, was riddled with sordidacts of corruption that<\/div>\n
made his reign so ineffective and scandal ridden. Indeciding to revoke his<\/div>\n
vow of quitting politics and re-engaging himself in theart of politicking,<\/div>\n
with a prurient penchant to haul muck at others, Obasanjo\u2019smessy steward<\/div>\n
must be called to question and he must be ever ready to defendwhatever<\/div>\n
took place under his watch.<\/div>\n
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Whilereceiving members of Buhari Support Group in Abuja last week,<\/div>\n
President Buharireminded them of the kind of putrid mess those who are now<\/div>\n
flatteringthemselves as redeemers of the people made here in Nigeria. He<\/div>\n
reminded themthat a past leader (mind you he didn\u2019t mention Obasanjo)<\/div>\n
claimed to have spenta whopping $16 billion in the power sector and asked<\/div>\n
where the power is. Thatwas enough to set afire the mounting fury of<\/div>\n
Obasanjo and his supporters whowere still hurting badly from Buhari\u2019s snub<\/div>\n
of the many vile means they hadbeen trying to call him out for a shouting<\/div>\n
match. They fawned, they threatenedand they wailed but yet refused to tell<\/div>\n
Nigerians what they did with the huge$16 billion they claimed to have<\/div>\n
expended on power. Particularly miserable wasObasanjo\u2019s sorry reply,<\/div>\n
through his spokesman, to the effect that Buhari shouldgo and read<\/div>\n
Obasanjo\u2019s book, My Watch, if he needs a reply to the poser hethrew. That<\/div>\n
singular reply rebounded so badly that Obasanjo was left naked,soiled and<\/div>\n
bruised among an angry populace who couldn\u2019t believe that a man thatwas in<\/div>\n
power for eleven years could give that kind of specious and<\/div>\n
outlandishanswer on an issue that requires very clear and lucid reply.<\/div>\n
Poor Obasanjo, hethought this time around he will muddle his way through<\/div>\n
such huge poser byapplying his well known guile and puerile antics but he<\/div>\n
seems trapped this timearound.<\/div>\n
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Nigeriansare asking if \u00a0Obasanjo spent $16 billionon a power that exists<\/div>\n
in the pages of his book? So Nigerians that have beenyearning for constant<\/div>\n
power supply or neon years should buy Obasanjo\u2019s book tosatiate their<\/div>\n
cravings for more power supply? Did Obasanjo and his mediocrespokesman<\/div>\n
mean that Nigerians will see power, real megawatts of electricity<\/div>\n
inObasanjo\u2019s book? Did Obasanjo use a whopping $16 billion to<\/div>\n
generateelectricity that could only be accessed from his book? Was the $16<\/div>\n
billionObasanjo said he spent to power meant to be for power in his book<\/div>\n
only? You canimagine the audacity of corruption. You can imagine the<\/div>\n
daftness of thecorrupt. You can imagine the porousness that undergirds<\/div>\n
corruption. Yes, it iseasier to steal than to acquire and this shows a<\/div>\n
demeaning limitation thatrules the mind of the corrupt.<\/div>\n
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Let us notforget that the $16 billion sleaze in the power sector had<\/div>\n
generated a hugelycontroversial legislative probe when the House of<\/div>\n
Representatives set up aprobe panel headed by Ndid Elumelu to unravel the<\/div>\n
mystery of investing $16billion in the power sector and having our power<\/div>\n
fortune worse than it wasbefore the investment. Let us not forget some of<\/div>\n
the sordid fallouts of theprobe where many of the so-called power plants<\/div>\n
Obasanjo claimed he was buildingwere found by the house investigative<\/div>\n
panels to be fenced open lands overgrownby weeds and nothing more.\u00a0 Let us<\/div>\n
recallthat like in any other high net worth corruption case, the<\/div>\n
legislative probehad been muddled in controversies, blackmail, threats,<\/div>\n
counter smear and allmanners of efforts to suppress it. Let us recall that<\/div>\n
the probe was stalematedbecause those that probed and those that were<\/div>\n
being probed were caught in the matrixof compromise and Nigerians were<\/div>\n
left guessing what the outcome of the probewould have been. The present<\/div>\n
inquest of where the power that spewed forth froma $16 billion investment<\/div>\n
will open vistas for more transparent probe of thishowling scandal that<\/div>\n
Obasanjo presided over.<\/div>\n
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But probe orno probe, the question \u2018Where is the power\u2019 remains unanswered<\/div>\n
and had almostbeen swept under the huge carpet where mountainous official<\/div>\n
malfeasances havebeen buried for ages now. What we get are trillions of<\/div>\n
megawatts of angryoutpourings and curses and abuses from Obasanjo\u2019s<\/div>\n
fawners and courtiers and no cogentanswer as to where our $16 billion<\/div>\n
power is! In fact, in one of such diseasedreactions, one of Obasanjo\u2019s<\/div>\n
favored maidservants, and his former EducationMinister, Oby Ezekwesili ran<\/div>\n
mad on twitter as he abused President Buhari as an\u2018incomplete President\u2019<\/div>\n
and threatened that she and her cohorts will deal withhim in the 2019<\/div>\n
election. Going by the humiliating and totally deprecatingreactions she<\/div>\n
got from her followers, what is not obvious is who will join herand her<\/div>\n
haggard train of Obasanjo lovers to execute her 2019 threat. Can<\/div>\n
youimagine the audacity and shamelessness of corruption? But she got far<\/div>\n
more thanshe bargained in that voyage she undertook when what is required<\/div>\n
of her and herboss is a very clear and convincing answer to a clear<\/div>\n
question.<\/div>\n
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. Before PresidentBuhari asked that question last week, those who were<\/div>\n
behind that elephantinerot were stomping all over the country,<\/div>\n
pontificating and sermonizing abouttheir saintliness and the question<\/div>\n
itself will dog Obasanjo in hisself-consuming messianic pretensions in the<\/div>\n
Nigerian political space. In amoment of sheer audacity of the corrupt,<\/div>\n
those who brought the country to itsknees were threatening to come back by<\/div>\n
every means possible and among them wasan Obasanjo whose every pores drips<\/div>\n
with corruption. That question will tagwith such other monumental heists<\/div>\n
like the Halliburton case, Siemens contractcase, the controversial<\/div>\n
presidential library issue, the Otta Farm resurgenceand very many other<\/div>\n
putrid and dirty cases to reveal the messy underbellies ofan Obasanjo that<\/div>\n
has constituted a national embarrassment in pursuance of hisself-propelled<\/div>\n
vaunting ambition and self-serving ends.<\/div>\n
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Fromwhichever angle you look at it, $16 billion is too huge to be swept<\/div>\n
under thesame carpet that has harbored the egregious acts of our past<\/div>\n
leaders likeObasanjo. $16 billion can do wonders in the life of any<\/div>\n
nation, even in theadvanced world. The money is too huge to be hidden<\/div>\n
inside the pages of apejorative book that was aimed at self-praise and<\/div>\n
self-canonizations for whichObasanjo is a class act. When you rightfully<\/div>\n
invest $16 billion into the powersector, you are bound to have three giant<\/div>\n
Mambila power plants; of the typeBuhari is building now. When you have $16<\/div>\n
billion thrown into the power sector,you would generate over 10,000<\/div>\n
megawatts of electricity and Nigeria would haveput its power problems<\/div>\n
behind it by now. When you throw $16 billion into thecountry\u2019s power<\/div>\n
sector, the multiplier effects would have tremendously impactedon the<\/div>\n
country\u2019s economy by now and not on a book. These are hard,<\/div>\n
incontrovertiblestatistics that do not need the subjective narration of<\/div>\n
Obasanjo in aself-adulatory book to explain. These are raw facts that do<\/div>\n
not need fartherelucidation, fits of stammering or the kind of confusion<\/div>\n
Obasanjo and hislickspittle are trying to import into answering this<\/div>\n
simple poser.<\/div>\n
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Nigerians,who have continually been frustrated in getting valid answers to<\/div>\n
the corruptacts committed by their former leaders see a ray of light in<\/div>\n
the $16 billionpower poser through a fresh and undiluted EFCC<\/div>\n
investigations of what happenedto the $16 billion Obasanjo claimed to have<\/div>\n
invested on power without any proofof improvement. Obasanjo and his aides<\/div>\n
must be made to give us valid andincontrovertible answer to what happened<\/div>\n
to such huge tranche of money whenthere is nothing on ground to show the<\/div>\n
huge money went into the epileptic powersector we had in Nigeria for the<\/div>\n
entire eight woeful years Obasanjo was inpower. Truth is that it is either<\/div>\n
the huge money translates to verifiableinvestments that can be<\/div>\n
ascertained, located and valued or it is stilldomiciled as raw cash<\/div>\n
somewhere the country can access it and make meaningfuluse of it. Telling<\/div>\n
us to read a book that has doubtful objectivity only showsnot only the<\/div>\n
evasive intent of Obasanjo and his hirelings but also fuels thefear that<\/div>\n
Obasanjo merely supervised the illicit stealing of a huge $16 billionin<\/div>\n
the name of investment in the power sector and he and his beneficiaries<\/div>\n
mustbe made to vomit such booty. That unfortunate answer amounted to an<\/div>\n
aggravatedinsult to all Nigerians. Obasanjo, in his well-known personal<\/div>\n
limitations, hisawesome limitations, age-old guile and negative wits, is<\/div>\n
known for suchcontempt for Nigerians but he will not be allowed to walk<\/div>\n
away with this one.<\/div>\n
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All said,Obasanjo\u2019s ill-advised desire to sell his vaulting predilection<\/div>\n
to ego massageand idiosyncratic satiation may assist us to strike a break<\/div>\n
in desiring to knowhow our resources were blatantly stolen by past leaders<\/div>\n
and their cronies. Hispresent trajectory may lead us to break the grounds<\/div>\n
in holding our past andpresent leaders accountable to their sins which<\/div>\n
wrecked the country anddevoured its future and potentials. But the most<\/div>\n
critical question today remains;Where is the power Obasanjo claimed he<\/div>\n
procured with $16 billion dollars forthe eight years he was here? To<\/div>\n
answer this question, Obasanjo needs to beclear, cadent and convincing.<\/div>\n
His evasive efforts will rather deepen thesuspicion Nigerians have of him<\/div>\n
that he solidified corruption and stealing inNigeria as he ruled. He needs<\/div>\n
to either show us the power or our money. Thereshould be no equivocation,<\/div>\n
no drama, no dancing around the issue here.Obasanjo, where is the power?<\/div>\n
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