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Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, has accused the Buhari administration of plotting to arrest and put him away for good.
The former leader said the government was planning to use fake documents and witnesses to nail him.
A statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday, This is the latest twist of bitter exchanges between the two leaders, who fell apart after Obasanjo accused Buhari of ineptitude and corruption, and advised him not to seek re-election.
But Buhari responded by accusing his predecessor of blowing away $16 billion on phoney electricity projects.
The former president said plans to silence him were in two fold, among which is a plot 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.
The presidency could not be immediately reached for comments.
The former president said he had been told that his name was on the government’s “watch list”, and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.
He however said no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated plan would deter him from speaking out.
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’.
“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.
Obasanjo statement says 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’.
‘It is important to point out that the former President and Head of State 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.
