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However, The DEFENDER gathered Friday that crying out would no longer work for any politicians, whose antics are to destabilize the same nation they are desperate to rule, as, according to reliable sources, who though did not confirm whether or not Obasanjo’s claims are true, the Buhari Administration would is resolved to allow sentiments influence him in his bid to rid Nigeria of all elements of insecurity, impunity and corruption.
In what now appears to be the tactics of those suspected to be behind the unrest in Nigeria as a result of their desperation to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from continuing in power by 2019, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has cried out that the current Administration has placed his name on the Watch List.
He said also that the government had perfected plans to implicate and imprison him based on what he believes to be trumped up charges because of his recent comments about the Buhari administration.
It will be recalled Senator Dino Melaye became the first to do what Obasanjo has done currently when he some arrested armed robbers and kidnappers confessed he gave them weapons and money to destabilise Kogi State, which Melaye himself went to report on the floor of the Senate as extension of killer “herdsmen” to his state.
But Melaye, who was asked by the Police to come and explain with a view to clearing himself of the allegations, chose to raise alarms that the Nigeria Police was out to tarnish his image and he did same “false” alarm to the International Community to save him from the Nigerian government and its police without knowing that even the international community is with President Buhari in his effort to fix Nigeria and rescue it from the grip from few “Owners of Nigeria” and return the country to its rightful owners, the Nigerian people.
After he was then arrested, after the Nigerian Immigration Services, refused him exit out of the country and he was to be taken to Lokoja being the scene of crime for parade and trials, Senator Dino Melaye, who until recent times remained the loudest politician in Nigeria of late, jumped out of police vehicle thereby committing yet another set of crimes punishable by the law.
It, is however noticeably clear, that since Melaye has been handled by the Police and the arrest of those criminals, what they had misrepresented in their crying out as activities of killer “herdsmen” spread to Kogi State has now died down as Kogi is now a peaceful state under Governor Yahya Bello. Yet it was for that reason they had wanted President Buhari to declare his own tribe of Fulani people, whose core business is herdsmanship, as terrorist organisation.
After Melaye came Senator Bukola Saraki, who also cried out on the floor of the Senate that the Police, he didn’t even mention Buhari government but he meant to get at the government, was plotting to frame him up thinking that the earlier arrested cultists moved from Ilorin to Abuja was for the purpose of doing that. But that, against the thinking of many, those who eventually indicted the Senate President turned out to be those of the worst crime: arrested Offa robbery suspects who confessed and it has now been proved to be thugs of the former governor of Kwara State and who bought the prohibited weapons they used in killing the 33 people including nine police officers for them.
Although they said Saraki did not involve in their crime of armed robbery in the case of the most condemnable bank robbery, they maintained that Saraki is their boss.
The latest coming from former President Olusegun Obasanjo who, in a statement issued on Friday in Abeokuta through his Media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said impeccable sources within the nation’s security system had informed him that his name is on the Watch List.
However, The DEFENDER gathered Friday that crying out would no longer work for any politicians, whose antics are to destabilize the same nation they are desperate to rule, as, according to reliable sources, who though did not confirm whether or not Obasanjo’s claims are true, the Buhari Administration would is resolved to allow sentiments influence him in his bid to rid Nigeria of all elements of insecurity, impunity and corruption.
According to the former President’s statement, “Since he declared in his State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018, the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension.
“Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.
“According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the nation’s security management and close to the corridors of power, the operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and hang a crime on him.
“Ordinarily, we would not have dignified these reports with a response but for the fact that many of these informants are not known for flippant and frivolous talks.
“Secondly, this Government has demonstrably exhibited apathy, and in some cases, encouraged by its conduct, daily loss of lives and property in many States of the country, the office cannot be indifferent.
“We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is currently being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same Government they serve.
“There is a groundswell of our nationals that live in fear that they could be hounded, harassed, maimed or even killed as the battle for 2019 takes this worrisome dimension.
“For Chief Obasanjo, this is a joke carried too far and being someone who do not act on unofficial information, he had cautioned all informants and adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the bestial propositions allegedly being contemplated to cow, cage and embarrass him.
“The content of the alleged beastly designs, it was learnt are two-fold for now. One, to seize his International Passport and clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further expressing angst on the pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance, economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the Government.
“But, since that could expose the Government to a swath of international condemnation, embarrassment and outrage, it is said that another plot being hatched is to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo’s administration using false witnesses and documents. This will be a re-enactment of the Abacha era in which Chief Obasanjo was one of the principal victims.
“The same EFCC that had conducted a clinical investigation on the activities of Obasanjo in and out of Government, it was said, would now be made to stand down the existing report that gave Chief Obasanjo a clean bill of health on the probes are now to get him indicted, fair or foul for possible prosecution and persecution like it is being done to real and perceived opponents, enemies and critics of this Government.
“Dissent is a fundamental principle on which liberal democracy is predicated. A true democrat must be ready to live with and accommodate dissent and opposition.
“While it is regrettable how the Government has sunk in its shameless desperation to cow opposition, a resort to blackmail, despotism and Gestapo-tactics being employed by the goons of this Government would not hold water. And no government ever remains in power forever.
“For the record, Chief Obasanjo reiterates his readiness to face probe again after that of the House of Representatives, the Senate, the ICPC, and the EFCC, but before an independent, objective and credible panel of enquiry to account for his stewardship in Government and beyond.
“Chief Obasanjo reiterates that he has taken a principled position to ensure that the ship of the Nigerian State does not capsize and he remains steadfast in his resolve to turn the tide of maladministration, poor economic management and rudderless governance model that has tore Nigerians apart on account of religion and ethnicity which is a great threat to our democracy.
“We would like the Government and its supporters to understand that no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter Chief Obasanjo from calling a spade by its name.
“Chief Obasanjo is a patriot whose sole agenda is to ensure that the country’s unity, progress and democracy are not negotiated on the altar of incompetence and provincialism and mediocrity.
“It is important to point out that chief Obasanjo is one former President and Head of State who has engaged the current administration privately and in a bilateral manner on several issues of direct interest to the government and other matters of national concern. That channel of private engagement remains open and continues.
“However, should there be the need for public engagement, the right to free speech will always be exercised and jealously guarded, again in the best interest of Nigeria and the government.”
How Nigerian youths react to Obasanjo’s cry
Some Nigerians who took to Prince Ade’s social media Facebook wall to react to the former President’s alarm have these to say:
Ibrahim Baba Muhammed: OBJ, sir are you contemplating exile, or you prefer the Yola option!
Ismyll Ndakaka: This confirms you are …. Do no evil, fear no evil!
Fagbolade Olugbenga: So, … dey fear evil too!
Yusuf Ahmed: Yes your activities now deserve close watch.
Odularu Olugbenga Better for you. Since you don’t want to rest at your age from trouble shooting, you will be made to rest by force even in peace.
Alamu Abiodun Kayode: In chapter 12 of Obasanjo’s book “My Watch” was quoted to have said “I would rather vote for Buhari to jail me than to allow Jonathan ruin this country” Now Obj is crying hoarse with rivanche! #thetimeisnow
Wale Ogunyemi: Why is Obj jittery? He thought PMB is like GEJ who doesn’t know right from wrong and also found wanting.
Kehinde Adeniran: I’m so disappointed in this old man. I don’t know what he wants again with all he has acquired under pretext of saving Nigeria, but I’m sure he will not go scott free.
