Olusegun Obasanjo, author and finisher of “do-or-die” 2007 (which winner got utterly ashamed of his “victory”); and creator of ace election magician, Maurice Iwu, is pointing fingers at the current INEC! Ridiculous, isn’t that?
At long, long last, the self-over-rated Ebora Owu of Nigerian politics is unravelling so fast, it is so, so dizzy! Suddenly, one of the so-called owners of Nigeria has suddenly found out his beloved “Nigeria” (in which he has an unrestrained sense entitlement) may finally have slipped from his sticky fingers! The panic is real!
Obasanjo’s is tantamount to the tale of the tortoise, who swore he wouldn’t return from his travel until he was disgraced.
Since the late Benjamin Adekunle aka Black Scorpion did all the work but Obasanjo plucked all the Civil War glory, he has developed a tragic sense of entitlement.
He loves Nigeria more than the rest of us. And like the scoundrel tortoise, who greedily renamed himself “All of you”, in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Obasanjo has developed an “All of You” syndrome! So, whatever he does, even if it’s a bare-faced swindle like his so-called Presidential Library, he is doing it because of his “love” for Nigeria — some avid love of the cat for the rat!
That is why Obasanjo would release his latest rigmarole, ringing with self-indictment, half-truths, wild rumours, pure fantasies, raw gossips which put good old old wives’ tales to shame, all sewn together by a steady flow of name-calling, absolutely unbecoming of a former elected president, military head of state and a self promoted statesman, who also happens to have a PhD! Where is the class? Where is panache?
“Trader moni” is skewed against the rural poor! But which category of people, rural or urban, did the Obasanjo era empower, beyond “Keke NAPEP”, which was nothing but a PDP racket?
An illegal third term hustler is dreaming “self-perpetuation” in another working hard to earn a legit second term!
The president has surrendered his campaign to “Jagaban” — but how is that Obasanjo’s headache?
All of sudden, asking the CJN to “remember” his “forgotten” assets; and account for them has become virtual persecution. Yet, Baba Iyabo is the holy Pope of Nigerian politics, before a serious smear like the CJN’s ceases to matter!
And the sheer cheapness of invoking Abacha! Did Obasanjo think that also would wipe out his grand political miscalcutions, of backing what is turning out to be a wrong horse, after the dismal collapse of his so-called Third Force?
Which other inanities did Obasanjo pile as cards, in his grumpy, pitiable attempt to cry wolf when there was none? So, the election would be rigged simply because Obasanjo said so?
And the so-called “international community” would just barge in and do exactly what? Because the candidate he endorsed, for which he himself said God would never forgive him, might just taste bitter defeat? But perhaps all these are early manifestations of a self-imposed curse from God?
Obasanjo has always been petty and graceless. But this letter hit the very nadir of it all.
Still, nobody should forget its sinister motive. Four years ago, everything was pointing to a loss by sitting President Goodluck Jonathan. The trick back then was to postpone the election.
Now, another presidential election is only three weeks away. But all Obasanjo wants to do is scuttle it, by crying wolf, all because he’s mortally scared his camp might suffer a crushing loss? Nice try!