A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has raised the alarm that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has put his name on its security\u00a0watchlist.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo claimed security agencies are plotting to arrest and put him in detention.<\/p>\n
The former president made these allegations in a statement signed by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday in Abeokuta.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo noted that the present administration wanted to blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of Nigerians to a better life.<\/p>\n
The statement read in part: \u201cSince Chief Olusegun Obasanjo declared in his State-of-the-Nation special statement on January 23, 2018, the desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension.<\/p>\n
\u201cImpeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo\u2019s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cOrdinarily, 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis 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.<\/p>\n
We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same Government they serve.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, 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 to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile 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.\u00a0 And no government ever remains in power forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor 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\u00a0enquiry\u00a0to account for his stewardship in Government and beyond.<\/p>\n
\u201cChief 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\u00a0torn Nigerians apart on account of religion and ethnicity which is a great threat to our democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like the Government and its supporters to understand that no amount of campaign of calumny, no matter how well contrived, orchestrated or marketed would deter Chief Obasanjo from calling a spade by its name. Chief Obasanjo is a patriot whose sole agenda is to ensure that the country\u2019s unity, progress, and\u00a0democracy are not negotiated on the altar of incompetence and provincialism and mediocrity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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