Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo who described the PDP as a dying Party last Saturday
when self-imposed factional chairman of PDP visited him in his Abeokuta Hill
Top mansion has been told to shut up!
Giving
the verdict in Lagos when contacted on phone was Comrade Femi Dosumu, Acting
President of League of Patriotic Nigerians.
Comrade Dosumu who was visibly incensed by Obasanjo’s remarks declared:
“Obadanjo is simply lucky that legal processes in Nigeria are upheld more in
the breech, otherwise that man would be behind bars long ago”.
Not
done yet, Comrade Dosumu continued: “who is Obasanjo to keep talking about
Nigeria’s affairs? A man who arguably
presided over the PDP affairs for over sixteen years? A man who
revolutionalized corruption in the entire system? He should be hiding himself in that his filthy
Hilltop mansion”, he told the Expose News.
The
former President is no stranger to Nigeria’s Democratic process. He first came to highlight at age 29, along
with veterans like T.Y. Danjuma, Murtala Mohammed, Hassan Usman Katsina, Yakubu
Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida to mention just few.
By
1976, fate bestowed on him the mantle of leadership, although he had been
operating within the power loop before disaster struck, taking the life of
General Murtala Mohammed in a bloody coup.
He was to be sent to prison by late General Sani Abacha who was on the
verge of signing his death warrant before death snatched him away.
It
is this respite that allowed General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) along with some
powerful and influential Northern Turks to bring Obasanjo back to power in 1999
- through the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria – the same Party he now vilifies
at every corner!
For
the next eight years, 1999 – 2007, Obasanjo was to rule with iron fists and rather
combative manner. While he traveled
extensively in his first tenure claiming, to scout for investors, his second
tenure was largely wasteful, deceptive and uncharacteristic of a man the nation
so much trusted. Obasanjo’s undemocratic
trademarks left no sector untouched.
Records
show that the retired military General performed dismally in virtually all the
critical sectors with unprecedented serial policy failures. For instance, trillions of naira was injected
into the electricity sector with no result, only total failure. The same pronounced failures were recorded in
the Railway sector where he poured billions. Till date, no one knows how NITEL
was destroyed under Obasanjo’s tutelage.
That Commission was sold for peanuts as well as Ajaokuta and Delta Steel
companies under the guise of privatization, thus ending the dream of Nigeria to
be fully industrialized, despite his over hyped economic and social reforms!
As
if possessed; while his personal wealth increased with corrupt establishment of
Obasanjo’s library, Bell University, expansion of his ill-gotten Ota farms, the
Nation elapsed into “anarchy” with his “coded” ill advised third term gambit. To actualize that craze, Obasanjo bribed the
National Assembly Members with 50 million each for Senators and 40 million for
Reps members. “When people refer to the
PDP as a corrupt Party, they are indeed pointing at Obasanjo”, said Comrade
Dosumu. By the time, he was eventually
forced out of office, the nation discovered that their debt portfolio had again
worsened rubbishing the credit he took for an earlier bailout by the Paris club
and World Bank. “Is Nigeria better today with failed promises, poverty and bad
roads? Even his next door Lagos-Ibadan
road he failed to rebuild”, fumes Comrade Dosumu. That is the man that is still talking.
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