{"id":89113,"date":"2021-11-26T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=89113"},"modified":"2021-11-26T08:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:09:25","slug":"how-we-prevented-obasanjos-third-term-bid-thabo-mbeki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/how-we-prevented-obasanjos-third-term-bid-thabo-mbeki\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Prevented Obasanjo\u2019s Third Term Bid \u2014 Thabo Mbeki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m21492\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, has given detail of how he and former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar worked against the third term bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div>\nMbeki said after putting a call through to Obasanjo to voice his discontent on the proposal, he agreed with Abubakar to \u201cintervene against the constitutional amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former President was Speaking virtually at a conference held in Abuja as he narrated his role alongside Abubakar in standing against the proposed constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the former President\u2019s third term bid was thwarted by the Senate led by Ken Nnamani.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cable, Mbeki said:\u00a0 \u201cAs a privilege to reiterate the commitment of General Abubakar to democracy in Nigeria in 2006, more than five years after he had handed over powers to Olusegun Obasanjo, the constitution on whose basis president Obasanjo was elected described a two-term limit for the head of state, and since he (Obasanjo) had been elected for the second time, this meant that he would end his term in 2007,\u201d the second post-apartheid president of South Africa said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; But some time before, in 2005, a campaign began in Nigeria to amend the constitution to allow for three presidential terms. This developed to a point that the draft of the proposed amendment had been presented to the Nigerian parliament as papers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard about this development, I engaged Obasanjo to communicate my unease at the proposal. In the end, I discussed it with General Abubakar, and we agreed that the proposed amendment was undesirable. We shared the view that the amendment must be avoided at all costs. We were of one mind that it spells bad both for Nigeria and the rest of the continent, tampering with and compromising our democratic system, which is just a few years old.\u00a0 We agreed to add our voices to those kicking against the amendment. We agreed that Abdulsalami would follow the situation in Nigeria closely and indicate to me when we should intervene against the constitutional amendment. I was very pleased when he called that the Nigerian senate has voted against the amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the development made him realize Abdulsalam\u2019s influence as \u201ca defender of democratic order and the peace and unity of Nigeria, as well as the welfare of all its people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, has given detail of how he and former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar worked against the third term bid of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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