Obasanjo’s secret plot, our correspondent has gathered, is said to be
having the backing of a section of the international community,
especially the United States of American.
The Obasanjo’s team, which has so far held two meetings – the inaugural meeting in Lagos and another in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has 12 members. They include, Professor Peter Okebukola, former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC); former Chief of Defence Staff, General Martis Luther Agwai; Professor George Obiozor; Mr. Steve Orosanye and Professor Ayo Banjo.
Other members of the team are Ahmed Joda; former Director-General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Idi Farouk; ex-Executive Director of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Chief Peter Igho; former Executive Chairman of EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu and others.
An insider told TheCorrespondent that the plot was informed by a security report by some foreign interest groups that the 2015 general elections might be inclusive and the proactive need for ‘’Option B’’.
When contacted, a senior presidential aide confirmed last night that ‘’the presidency and the security agents are aware of Obasanjo’s different secret meetings with some people and a section of international community to destabilise the process to 2015 general elections’’.
Our source said that Obasanjo first alerted the presidency about his plans when he told Senate President David Mark-led team to his Abeokuta home in October 2014 that he was not sure of legitimate government in the country after 2015.
Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, Mrs. Josephine Anenih and Senator Saminu Turaki were parts of the Senate President President Mark’s entourage to Obasanjo last October on best possible way PDP could reconcile with him.
But responding to the Senate President-led team at that meeting, Obasanjo was quoted as saying that, ‘‘I have graduated from site-down-look; these days, I stand up to look so that I can see very well what is happening in my country. You all know my position on this matter. Unless PDP goes back to the era of 2007, we are just wasting our time. Yes, there might be elections in 2015; but I doubt seriously if there will be legitimate government after 2015’
Our source added that Obasanjo never concealed his premonition of the danger ahead, after the 2015 general elections, as he told the Senate President angrily, ‘Go I tell Jonathan what I said; there might be no legitimate government in this country after 2015’.
A presidential aide who pleaded anonymity because of the security dimension to Obasanjo’s move, said, ‘’The truth of the matter is that it is very difficult to understand what former President Obasanjo wants. If he demands for 10 things and you grant nine out of his 10 requests, he will use the one you fail to accept against you.
‘’President Goodluck Jonathan has promised never to say anything against Obasanjo after his (Jonathan) reply to his public letter. The President has continued to listen to Obasanjo’s different advices and his requests. But in most cases, his requests are self-centres. He thinks he is still the president of Nigeria.
‘’Obasanjo did the same thing to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and six months to Yar’Adua’s tenure, he stopped picking Obasanjo’s telephone calls. We shall see how far he, his team and foreign collaborators can go’’.
Minister of Police Affairs Jelili Adesiyan, also said recently in a public function in Lagos that a secret design by Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to form an interim government has been uncovered.
Adesiyan said he had already directed the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba; and the Department of State Service to arrest anybody that made inflammatory statements ahead of the 2015 elections.
According to him, “Many of those in the APC are disgruntled PDP members who are no longer relevant and because they could not have their way, they have started to heat up the polity. They have said they will form a parallel government if they lose.
“I have already told the IG and the DSS to arrest anybody making such mutinous and inflammatory statements.”
The Obasanjo’s team, which has so far held two meetings – the inaugural meeting in Lagos and another in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has 12 members. They include, Professor Peter Okebukola, former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC); former Chief of Defence Staff, General Martis Luther Agwai; Professor George Obiozor; Mr. Steve Orosanye and Professor Ayo Banjo.
Other members of the team are Ahmed Joda; former Director-General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Idi Farouk; ex-Executive Director of the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Chief Peter Igho; former Executive Chairman of EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu and others.
An insider told TheCorrespondent that the plot was informed by a security report by some foreign interest groups that the 2015 general elections might be inclusive and the proactive need for ‘’Option B’’.
When contacted, a senior presidential aide confirmed last night that ‘’the presidency and the security agents are aware of Obasanjo’s different secret meetings with some people and a section of international community to destabilise the process to 2015 general elections’’.
Our source said that Obasanjo first alerted the presidency about his plans when he told Senate President David Mark-led team to his Abeokuta home in October 2014 that he was not sure of legitimate government in the country after 2015.
Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, Mrs. Josephine Anenih and Senator Saminu Turaki were parts of the Senate President President Mark’s entourage to Obasanjo last October on best possible way PDP could reconcile with him.
But responding to the Senate President-led team at that meeting, Obasanjo was quoted as saying that, ‘‘I have graduated from site-down-look; these days, I stand up to look so that I can see very well what is happening in my country. You all know my position on this matter. Unless PDP goes back to the era of 2007, we are just wasting our time. Yes, there might be elections in 2015; but I doubt seriously if there will be legitimate government after 2015’
Our source added that Obasanjo never concealed his premonition of the danger ahead, after the 2015 general elections, as he told the Senate President angrily, ‘Go I tell Jonathan what I said; there might be no legitimate government in this country after 2015’.
A presidential aide who pleaded anonymity because of the security dimension to Obasanjo’s move, said, ‘’The truth of the matter is that it is very difficult to understand what former President Obasanjo wants. If he demands for 10 things and you grant nine out of his 10 requests, he will use the one you fail to accept against you.
‘’President Goodluck Jonathan has promised never to say anything against Obasanjo after his (Jonathan) reply to his public letter. The President has continued to listen to Obasanjo’s different advices and his requests. But in most cases, his requests are self-centres. He thinks he is still the president of Nigeria.
‘’Obasanjo did the same thing to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and six months to Yar’Adua’s tenure, he stopped picking Obasanjo’s telephone calls. We shall see how far he, his team and foreign collaborators can go’’.
Minister of Police Affairs Jelili Adesiyan, also said recently in a public function in Lagos that a secret design by Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to form an interim government has been uncovered.
Adesiyan said he had already directed the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba; and the Department of State Service to arrest anybody that made inflammatory statements ahead of the 2015 elections.
According to him, “Many of those in the APC are disgruntled PDP members who are no longer relevant and because they could not have their way, they have started to heat up the polity. They have said they will form a parallel government if they lose.
“I have already told the IG and the DSS to arrest anybody making such mutinous and inflammatory statements.”
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