Obasanjo: My life in danger

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EX-PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo alleged yesterday that there were moves by agents of the federal government to terminate his life for no just cause.

He said that the Muhammadu Buhari government which he helped to install was out to use Gestapo tactics to cow and silence him.

Obasanjo, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta yesterday, said the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into silence was borne out of government’s belief that the tactics could impel him to jettison what he identified as his ”divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living.”

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) which was adopted by the Obasanjo-inspired Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) as the platform for its supporters to contest coming elections in the country, and his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), expressed worries over the allegations.

The ADC warned that no evil must befall him while the PDP said the allegation, coming from a Nigerian of Obasanjo status, was terrifying.

The ex-president, in his statement, said federal government’s antics against him have not only continued unabated but have also taken a bizarre dimension as “impeccable security sources had alleged that his (Chief Obasanjo’s) name was on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.”

He said the alleged threat to his life was the fallout of his “State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018,” where the ex-President pilloried Buhari’s administration as a failure and advised him not to seek re-election.

The statement reads: “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 does 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.

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EX-PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo alleged yesterday that there were moves by agents of the federal government to terminate his life for no just cause.

He said that the Muhammadu Buhari government which he helped to install was out to use Gestapo tactics to cow and silence him.

Obasanjo, in a statement issued by his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta yesterday, said the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into silence was borne out of government’s belief that the tactics could impel him to jettison what he identified as his ”divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living.”

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) which was adopted by the Obasanjo-inspired Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) as the platform for its supporters to contest coming elections in the country, and his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), expressed worries over the allegations.

The ADC warned that no evil must befall him while the PDP said the allegation, coming from a Nigerian of Obasanjo status, was terrifying.

The ex-president, in his statement, said federal government’s antics against him have not only continued unabated but have also taken a bizarre dimension as “impeccable security sources had alleged that his (Chief Obasanjo’s) name was on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.”

He said the alleged threat to his life was the fallout of his “State-of-the-Nation Special Statement on January 23, 2018,” where the ex-President pilloried Buhari’s administration as a failure and advised him not to seek re-election.

The statement reads: “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 does 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.