CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO'S NEW PHOBIA OF GOODLUCK JONATHAN (JONATHAN-PHOBIA); WHY AND HOW DID IT GO WRONG THIS FAR?
It is obvious that Chief General Olusegun Obasanjo hates Nigeria and Nigerians with a passion. His disdain for Nigeria is immeasurable. After his third term bid fell and collapsed like a pack of cards, he is angry with everybody especially his estranged godson who has jettisoned him for a more accommodating godfather? When he discovered that his many open letters had no effect on President Jonathan whatsoever, he decided to bind them into a book titled 'My Watch'
Please my readers do not crucify me yet for the above statement of facts about Chief Obasanjo. Let us cast our mind back to the year of our Lord 2010 and 2011. That was the year of the last elections in Nigeria. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was all over the place campaigning for the then presidential candidate of the PDP, Dr Goodluck Jonathan. In fact that was the year Chief Obasanjo made that his infamous statement of the election being a “do or die affair” Dr Goodluck Jonathan's major challenger then as it is now is still Major General Muhammadu Buhari who unfortunately had lost in the same elections to General Obasanjo in 2003 and Alhaji Umaru Yar' Adua in 2011.
Fast forward now to the year 2015, the year of another election. So many indices have since changed since 2011. All effort made by Chief Obasanjo to remain Chairman Board of Trustee of the PDP has failed. His effort too to break up the PDP through the former rebel governors has still failed. He had an anointed candidate for the PDP's presidential election for 2015, yet it still failed.
Goodluck Jonathan it seems has come of age and has since taken off the yolk of OBJ off his neck. That was where the problem started. In my article titled:-“Olusegun Obasanjo; the Frustration of a Defeated and Failed GodFather.” which was graciously published by many media in December 2013, it was obvious that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo will bear his fangs full blast against Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election.
Let us remain General Olusegun Obasanjo here of the perpetrators and causes of the post presidential election riots of 2011 as reported by the press both local and internationally. The author of election violence and riots right from Adam has been Major General Muhammadu Buhari with his unguarded utterances and his wild almajiri supporters in the far North of Nigeria.
Dogs and Baboons will soak in blood if I lose the 2015 Presidential election. General Muhammadu Buhari. Vanguards and Punch Newspapers Tuesday 15th May 2012.
The following are the news headlines of major local and international news media on Monday, 18th April 2011.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Angry opposition supporters in Nigeria's mostly Muslim north set fire to homes bearing ruling party banners Monday and heavy gunfire rang out in several towns as election officials released results showing the Christian incumbent had gained an insurmountable lead.
Results from Saturday's election released live on national television indicated President Goodluck Jonathan had a commanding lead of more than 10 million votes with only two states left to be announced. The Muslim north had largely voted for former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari widely believed to be a Muslim fanatic.
BBC World Service: Riots have broken out across northern Nigeria as presidential poll results show Goodluck Jonathan is set to win.
Homes of supporters of Mr Jonathan, the incumbent, were attacked in the cities of Kano and Kaduna.
Young Muslim supporters of Muhammadu Buhari, who is popular in the north, have been clashing with police and military. They feel that the elections have been rigged in some areas of the south.
There are unconfirmed reports that people have died in the violence.
President Jonathan has called for an end to the disturbances, saying “no-one's political ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian”.
With nearly all the votes counted, People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Mr Jonathan – a Christian from the oil-producing Niger Delta – has almost twice the number of his main rival.
The African Union observer team said it was Nigeria's best poll for decades.
(Reuters) – Post-election riots in northern Nigeria have killed at least 50 people in major cities alone, according to a tally from witnesses and rescue workers, but the overall death toll is believed to be much higher.
Hundreds have been injured and thousands displaced by violence across the mostly-Muslim north after President Goodluck Jonathan won weekend elections. His rival, northerner and ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, says the vote was rigged.
Looking at the above headlines and even the way the supporters of Major General Buhari still behave as they have shown in Bauchi, Gombe, Yola, Kaduna, Kano and even Abuja shows clearly that General Buhari and his supporters are violent people.
It is clear without doubt that Dr Goodluck Jonathan will clearly and surely win the 2015 presidential election with a landslide. Chief Obasanjo will not vote anyway. He can only make noise and that is it.
As Nigerian, we cannot trust General Buhari with our collective destiny for now because of his antecedence as an Islamic fundamentalist.
Secondly his new associates, benefactors and sponsors like Bola Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi, Bukola Saraki are the global face of corruption from Nigeria.
Major General Muhammadu Buhari is not a man of honour and not a man of his words. He cried openly and wept profusely during his world press conference in April 2011 that he will not contest any election in Nigeria again. This is in addition to the fact that he served under the most corrupt government in living memory of Nigerians under General Sani Abacha as PTF chairman. He has gone back to his vomit and has swallowed his words and is contesting again in 2015!
Most importunately, those of us from the North are aware of General Buhari's overt and covert support of Boko Haram. He has always referred to them as so called 'Boko Haram' in all his speeches. He has never come out to condemn Boko Haram atrocities especially again the Northern Christians.
Major General Mohammadu Buhari is not electable for the following reasons:-
1. General Buhari's overt and physical support for the Boko Haram Islamic terrorists is not in doubt as his following utterances are clear evidence.
On Thursday, November 1st 2012, Boko Haram Islamic terrorists nominated Major General Muhammadu Buhari as the team leader of those who will dialogue with the government on their behalf. Clearly the relationship that Boko Haram has with Buhari could not be in doubt.
We cannot therefore submit to the Boko Haram blackmail by electing their main backer as Nigerian president.
2. As if to confirm the special relationship he has with the Boko Haram Islamic terrorists, General Buhari confirmed that on Sunday, June 2, 2013 in a program on Liberty FM Radio Kaduna. Vintage General Buhari confirmed his open support for the Boko Haram terrorists when he protested vehemently the military crackdown on the terrorists. In that interview with LIBERTY FM Radio Kaduna, Buhari,has this to say, while the Niger-Delta were treated like kings, the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad which some people call Boko Haram are being killed and their houses destroyed unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants. This is injustice to Northern Nigeria.
Hear General Buhari as reported again by Punch Newspaper of Monday, 3rd June 2013:-
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.
The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta at that time wanted to win their elections, so they recruited youths and gave guns and bullets to them to use against their opponents to win elections by force.
This is a statement by one of Obasanjo's boys made about General Buhari in 2010:-
We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for only a part of Nigeria. We now understand what his protégé and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El'Rufai, meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling Nigerians that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” and that Buhari's “insensitivity to Nigeria's diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known.”
In summary, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's phobia of Dr Goodluck Jonathan is a carryover of his frustration having lost his relevance in the PDP and the Jonathan government post March 28th 2015 election.
Farewell to godfatherism in Nigerian politics post 2015 election.
Written by Ndiameeh Babangida Babreek.
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