Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused the government of President Muhammadu Buhari of perfecting plans to implicate him on a crime, detain him indefinitely so as to silence him from criticizing the mediocre Government of the All progressive Congress, APC.
In a statement released on his behalf by Kehinde Akinyemi, his spokesman, Obasanjo said part of the plan was 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.
Obasanjo added that 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 (EFCC) to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo’s administration using false witnesses and documents.
Obasanjo said he would not have raised the alarm were it not for the
ongoing victimization of Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of
Representatives and Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The Statement reads:
Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their watch list and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed,” read the statement.
According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the
nation’s 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.
“Ordinarily, 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. Secondly, this 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.
We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is currently being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same Government they serve. There 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,” he said.
For Chief Obasanjo, this is a joke carried too far and being someone who do not act on unofficial information, he had cautioned all informants and adopted a wait-and-see attitude to the bestial propositions allegedly
being contemplated to cow, cage and embarrass him.
The 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.
But, 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 (EFCC) to re-open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo’s 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.
The same EFCC that had conducted a clinical investigation on the
activities of Obasanjo in and out of Government, it was said, would now be made to stand down the existing report that gave Chief Obasanjo a clean bill of health on the probes are now to get him indicted, fair or foul for possible prosecution and persecution like it is being done to real and
perceived opponents, enemies and critics of this government.
