THE DANGER IN OBASANJO´S BACKING OF A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

  I have watched this movie before or a very similar one, with the same plot, the same intrigues and the same fall out. I do not have anything against Hon Aminu Tambuwal although his being the leader of the Nigerian House of Representatives is not enough curriculum or yardstick to determine his aptness for the office of the presidency. My real problem is rtd. General Olusegun Obasanjo who is championing his candidacy. An adage in Yoruba translated into English says that whoever must give someone a gift of clothes makes it necessary to first have a glance at what he, the giver is wearing.

 Can anything good come out of the man who ruled our 54 years old nation intermittently for 10 years and the only man in our history to have done so as a military Head of State and later as a civilian president, with an unusual and a very golden opportunity to have been able to right his wrongs and finally rise to the olympus of our hearts but chose rather to further descend into the depth of massive social hatred with myriad anti people decisions and policies during his second coming which should have served as his correctional tenure? The man who sold out all the public corporations that caused our nation so much to acquire and establish in the first place, the man whose choice of succession after his own illegal bid to govern our nation for three consecutive terms running, failed, were the tandem of the late Umaru Yar´adua and the incumbent Nigerian President, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

  A man whose actions have proved beyond doubt to be a strong advocate and custodian of the unjust and condemnable status quo, tyrannically instilled on our nation after the civil war by the military junta, the same corrupt status quo which has remained the bane of our development and progress as a people.

  I just hope that Nigerians would be wise this time around, and not accept any imposition or cajoling on them of any candidate, especially by Rtd. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, who would do Nigeria and Nigerians better if he retires permanently from government and all government issues, the suggestions and pieces of advice that could not serve him to bring Nigeria back on course from its many decades of failure and ignominy is honestly not going to be useful to us at this point in time in the history of our nation.

  Nigerians should free our dear nation from the shackles of post colonial slavery, which is what Rtd. Gen Olusegun Obasanjo and his cohorts represent in our country.