{"id":89992,"date":"2021-12-17T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=89992"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:12:11","slug":"obasanjo-is-a-fake-patriot-who-did-everything-to-undermine-awolowo-bisi-akande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/obasanjo-is-a-fake-patriot-who-did-everything-to-undermine-awolowo-bisi-akande\/","title":{"rendered":"Obasanjo is a fake patriot\u00a0 who did everything\u00a0 to undermine Awolowo&#8211;Bisi Akande"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1719403426585029881\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>Chief Bisi Akande has described ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo as a fake\u00a0patriot adding &#8221; I have never seen anything genuine about him despite his self-glorification&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Akande in his recently released book, \u201cMy Participation&#8221;\u00a0added, \u201cIt was this\u00a0vaunting\u00a0ambition that made him express constant hatred to the most altruistic and selfless leader of our time, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe continues to wonder till tomorrow why the Yoruba people, especially after his tour of duty as a two-time President, continue to elevate Awolowo to the highest pedestal while they have no respect for him. So, he would wander to his grave!\u201cIn his detestations for Awolowo, he is ruled by a virulent inferiority complex, believing that he needed to do everything to supplant the greatness of Awolowo or undermine his legacies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was why he launched the Universal Basic Education in 1978, knowing that free education would be the core of Awolowo program for the Second Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was also why he continued in this line during his two-term disastrous presidency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>\u201cFor the reason that I was not dancing to his tune, Obasanjo did everything to depress and discredit my government and undermine us in Osun state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, he wanted my government to collapse and once I had a problem with (Iyiola) Omisore, he adopted him as a willing tool and railroaded him into the Senate despite his detention for the assassination of Bola Ige,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Obasanjo of ordering that Osun State should be short-paid by N216 million monthly from the Federal Allocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the beginning, we were earning about N150 million when our salary bill was about N260 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly, the price of crude oil was rising and the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) was back in the account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo instead, of our own income to move from N150 to N300 million, we were experiencing reduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly also, they decided to deduct N216 million from our allocation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>We went to the Budget Office in Abuja to find out why they were making the deductions and we were told it was \u2018order from above,\u2019 meaning they were acting on a directive from the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy finance commissioner, in frustration, advised that perhaps we should bribe them. I said \u2018No\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to know what the cause of this order from above was but we didn\u2019t find out anything. They did this for a few other states too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey claimed they were deducting for some inexplicable international debts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I came to know the sinister motive when (Olagunsoye) Oyinlola became governor and they paid the arrears of the deductions to his government,\u201d Akande added in the autobiography.<\/p>\n<\/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>Chief Bisi Akande has described ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo as a fake\u00a0patriot adding &#8221; I have never seen anything genuine about him despite his self-glorification&#8221;. 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