Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on
December 11 alleged that the then
President, Goodluck Jonathan was currently
keeping over 1000 people on his political
watch list while also secretly training snipers
and other armed personnel as well as
acquiring weapons for political purposes.
He stated this in an 18-paged letter to Mr.
Jonathan, that the snipers were being
trained at the same place the late Head of
State, Sani Abacha, trained his own killer
squad.
What do you expect the incoming
government of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to
handle first?
C) Corruption (39%, 6,725 Votes)
B) Power (28%, 4,886 Votes)
A) Security (21%, 3,579 Votes)
D) Unemployment (11%, 1,806 Votes)
E) Undecided (1%, 176 Votes)
Total Voters: 17,172
President Goodluck Jonathan replied
Obasanjo in a 10-page letter and challenged
him to produce the names of those on the
alleged political watch list and the
Government agencies which were watching
over them.
President Jonathan, in the letter, noted
“since I started my political career as a
Deputy Governor, I have never been
associated with any form of political
violence. There have certainly been cases of
political assassinations since the advent of
our Fourth Republic, but as you well know,
none of them occurred under my leadership.
“Baba, I don’t know where you got that
from but you do me grave injustice in not
only lending credence to such baseless
rumours, but also publicizing it. You
mentioned God seventeen times in your
letter. Can you as a Christian hold the Bible
and say that you truly believe this
allegation.”
The question is this; the 2015 election has
come and gone, Professor Attahiru Jega has
allegedly connived with the All Progressives
Congress, APC, to scuttle Dr. Jonathan’s re-
election bid; the north mobilized the
almajiris to kick Jonathan out; four card
readers could not authenticate Jonathan’s
voter’s card. The APC insulted and called him
clueless, blah blah blah, yet Jonathan, did not
deploy the infamous truck of snipers to
scuttle the election.
With President Muhamadu Buhari sworn in,
can Obasanjo kindly tell Nigerians where he
found the over 1000 snipers he claimed
were being trained by Goodluck to kill his
political opponents?
No one wants to die in the hand of a sniper!
Olusegun Obasanjo and over 50 other army
officers were, without fair hearing, jailed by
the Abacha Government on trumped up
charges of coup plotting.
Nigeria, under Abacha, became a pariah
nation after being expelled from the
Commonwealth of Nations for executing Ken
Saro-Wiwa and other activists who were
campaigning for a fairer share of Nigerian
oil revenues and against the environmental
damage caused to their lands by the drilling
and spills of big oil companies.
Lt-General Oladipo Diya, Major-Generals
Abdulkareem Adisa and Tajudeen
Olanrewaju, and several other officers were
on death row awaiting execution for their
role in another coup plot no thanks to the
conscienceless Abacha.
The acclaimed winner of the June 12 1993
election, late Chief MKO Abiola had been in
jail for 4 years, kept incommunicado from
the outside world. He later died in prison
under controversial circumstances.
The Guardian Newspapers by Alex Ibru, a
Minister under the Abacha regime was shut
down after it criticised the Government. It
was the paper’s continual criticism of
Abacha’s regime that led to the near fatal
assassination attempt on Ibru’s life.
Senator Bola Tinubu, scared to the bone of
Abacha’s snipers fled Nigeria. Alani
Akinrinade, Babafemi Ojudu, Gani
Faweyinmi, amongst others did not have
such a luxury as they were imprisoned for
standing up to the Military dictator.
Kayode Fayemi, the former Governor of Ekiti
State could not practice physical journalism
and he went underground.
Kudirat Abiola was gunned down in daylight
by elements who allegedly had Abacha’s
backing.
General Abacha was on the verge of
transforming himself from a military ruler to
civilian President having strong-armed the
then 5 political parties in the country into
adopting him as their sole presidential
candidate.
This terribly wicked design failed as
Abacha’s timeline came to an abrupt end via
a “heart attack”. The end of a very hated
ruler brought joy to the hearts of several
Nigerians and that was that.
If Jonathan had trained snipers where
Abacha had done his, how is it under
Jonathan’s administration the press was not
muzzled?
How come Tinubu did not go on exile, how
come that there was no political
assassination under his watch, how come
those who abused him and called him
clueless were able to sleep with their two
eyes closed?
Obasanjo! Where are the 1000 snipers?
Nigerians are asking?

you should write him a letter . just bear in mind that he is a coward

"you went into an exam hall with a textbook because you couldn't read the subject. the supervisor came in and took a seat beside you because he is disabled and can't walk properly. tell me how are you ganna bring out the textbook"

Most are nairalanders

I will comment later

His age and desire for political relevance is contrasting

Hullucination by Obasanjo. I wonder why people take him seriously

Ahahahahahahhahahhaaha.... obj lost favour with Gej, he used everything within his power to fight him, then when he was sure that the opposition has gained grounds he shifted to the party..there is a saying that "The enemy of my enemy, is my friend"

That is politics for us!

deor03:
Hullucination by Obasanjo. I wonder why people take him seriously

Honestly

agarawu23:
"you went into an exam hall with a textbook because you couldn't read the subject. the supervisor came in and took a seat beside you because he is disabled and can't walk properly. tell me how are you ganna bring out the textbook"

hw come d supervisor(obj) was incapacitated and thrown into prison by Sani? God will surprise them all.

chigo93:
hw come d supervisor(obj) was incapacitated and thrown into prison by Sani? God will surprise them all.

hmmmm God is watching

Hypocrisy the tribal marks on his face!

handed them over to PMB in his report. Hahahaha.