Responding to an interview, Na'Abba former Speaker of the House of Representatives revealed some shocking details about former President Obasanjo on why the President Buhari should not rely on him.
He said he definitely would not want to come between two as they knew each other in the military.
Buhari was variously a Minister and military secretary under him as well as a military governor. So Buhari knows him better than I do. So he knows how to handle him. However, in 1984, when Buhari became Head of State, he said his administration was an offshoot of the Obasanjo administration."
"I was, therefore, baffled when, in 1999, Obasanjo, having become the President, became determined to embarrass Buhari over his headship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). He instituted probe after probe to find faults with Buhari. Unfortunately for him he did not find anything. Indeed, he personally harassed and interrogated Buhari. I was in the government, so I know all these. He went on to disband the PTF in spite of the important infrastructural projects being undertaken by the body, against the advice of some of us."
"The nation lost so much to this singular misadventure in monetary terms that I personally called into question Obasanjo’s patriotic credentials. The other day, I watched on television Obasanjo’s emissary handing over documents to Buhari on power infrastructure developed by his think tank, an action that made me laugh profusely. How could someone who spent $16b on power without achieving anything when he was President bring a proposal on that matter to anybody! While I would not advise Buhari to repay Obasanjo in his own coins, I would advocate that he should not allow him to be distracting him," he said.
He said Obasanjo has no ideas to offer Buhari and that the President should relate with him with some caution.
Na'Abba said recently some Colombians were introduced to Buhari "as experts on insurgency. Up till now, Colombia is battling insurgents. So I don’t see how the Colombians would help end insurgency in Nigeria.So, he should relate with him with some circumspection. It must never escape Buhari’ s memory that all the difficulties Nigeria is going through today are Obasanjo ‘s handiwork, including the fielding of the likes of Umaru Y’ar’adua and Goodluck Jonathan to be President and Vice President and subsequently the President in spite of the known condition and limitations of all of them. He did that with the sole purpose of continuing to run the government from Otta, which unfortunately for him failed. Both denied him that privilege and guarded their mandates jealously. This accounted for his hostility to Jonathan.":
Na'Abba said at the time he left the PDP, the party was definitely a hopeless case and that besides some important members of the party feeling alienated, the party was ruled by impunity and corruption; especially with the manner in which some top members of the party were collecting money from aspirants in order to offer them tickets to contest elections.
He disclosed that there were cases some individuals paid some money in order to deny some aspirants the right to contest for elections and candidates were normally imposed on others in PDP to the "detriment of members that had been in the party for 16 years."
Na'Abba said, "Overall, the government was behaving like a cartel such that most members and organs of the party were not privy to the goings on in government," which he said was responsible for the reason why the Party lost the elections "because it was out of touch with the people and reality."
He said during his reign as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, former President Olusegun Obasanjo tried all he could to get him removed as the speaker and when that failed he tried so that he would not be elected because the House under him were not playing his puppet while he succeeded in removing the Senate President then, CHUBA OKADIGBO. He said, "Obasanjo played a big role in weakening the legislature. It is common knowledge that he did all he could to see to my impeachment and removal as the Speaker by my colleagues. What he wanted was to install a puppet. In my own case and that of the House of Representatives, he did not succeed."
Na'Abba said the "eventual successor Anyim Pius Anyim, was a confessed Obasanjonian" which resulted in weakened Senate. "Together with Obasanjo, they engaged in doing a lot of things, too numerous to mention here, that eventually culminated in weakening the institution," He said.( see Vanguard for more shocking details).
"I was, therefore, baffled when, in 1999, Obasanjo, having become the President, became determined to embarrass Buhari over his headship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). He instituted probe after probe to find faults with Buhari. Unfortunately for him he did not find anything. Indeed, he personally harassed and interrogated Buhari. I was in the government, so I know all these. He went on to disband the PTF in spite of the important infrastructural projects being undertaken by the body, against the advice of some of us."
"The nation lost so much to this singular misadventure in monetary terms that I personally called into question Obasanjo’s patriotic credentials. The other day, I watched on television Obasanjo’s emissary handing over documents to Buhari on power infrastructure developed by his think tank, an action that made me laugh profusely. How could someone who spent $16b on power without achieving anything when he was President bring a proposal on that matter to anybody! While I would not advise Buhari to repay Obasanjo in his own coins, I would advocate that he should not allow him to be distracting him," he said.
He said Obasanjo has no ideas to offer Buhari and that the President should relate with him with some caution.
Na'Abba said recently some Colombians were introduced to Buhari "as experts on insurgency. Up till now, Colombia is battling insurgents. So I don’t see how the Colombians would help end insurgency in Nigeria.So, he should relate with him with some circumspection. It must never escape Buhari’ s memory that all the difficulties Nigeria is going through today are Obasanjo ‘s handiwork, including the fielding of the likes of Umaru Y’ar’adua and Goodluck Jonathan to be President and Vice President and subsequently the President in spite of the known condition and limitations of all of them. He did that with the sole purpose of continuing to run the government from Otta, which unfortunately for him failed. Both denied him that privilege and guarded their mandates jealously. This accounted for his hostility to Jonathan.":
Na'Abba said at the time he left the PDP, the party was definitely a hopeless case and that besides some important members of the party feeling alienated, the party was ruled by impunity and corruption; especially with the manner in which some top members of the party were collecting money from aspirants in order to offer them tickets to contest elections.
He disclosed that there were cases some individuals paid some money in order to deny some aspirants the right to contest for elections and candidates were normally imposed on others in PDP to the "detriment of members that had been in the party for 16 years."
Na'Abba said, "Overall, the government was behaving like a cartel such that most members and organs of the party were not privy to the goings on in government," which he said was responsible for the reason why the Party lost the elections "because it was out of touch with the people and reality."
He said during his reign as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, former President Olusegun Obasanjo tried all he could to get him removed as the speaker and when that failed he tried so that he would not be elected because the House under him were not playing his puppet while he succeeded in removing the Senate President then, CHUBA OKADIGBO. He said, "Obasanjo played a big role in weakening the legislature. It is common knowledge that he did all he could to see to my impeachment and removal as the Speaker by my colleagues. What he wanted was to install a puppet. In my own case and that of the House of Representatives, he did not succeed."
Na'Abba said the "eventual successor Anyim Pius Anyim, was a confessed Obasanjonian" which resulted in weakened Senate. "Together with Obasanjo, they engaged in doing a lot of things, too numerous to mention here, that eventually culminated in weakening the institution," He said.( see Vanguard for more shocking details).
Na'Abba stated that, Igbo agitations for secession "is a sort of conspiracy. Most of the former governors from the zone did not do much for their states and this has been a source of frustration for the people of the South-East. Let me add that it is not everybody in the South-East that is in support of this Biafra agitation. I think it is a misguided demand based on propaganda from people who are self-serving. I don’t think there is any need for Biafra today."
He said the "Igbo are very hard working and enterprising. They are spread all over Africa. In Nigeria, there are over 25 million Igbo outside Igbo land, achieving economic success. They are very dominant in the economies of all the states they live in. I don’t think it is fair to throw Igbo into some kind of crisis. I believe there must be some dialogue in order to douse the tension. The leadership of those agitators are just serving their interests. They target their propaganda towards a particular class of people who are ignorant. We have to handle it with much care."
NA'Abba said what the military did to Shiite was too brutal though he said, it was wrong if really the Shiites blocked the road when the army Chief was passing, but said notwithstanding, the army are suppose to protect not to arm people.
He said the "Igbo are very hard working and enterprising. They are spread all over Africa. In Nigeria, there are over 25 million Igbo outside Igbo land, achieving economic success. They are very dominant in the economies of all the states they live in. I don’t think it is fair to throw Igbo into some kind of crisis. I believe there must be some dialogue in order to douse the tension. The leadership of those agitators are just serving their interests. They target their propaganda towards a particular class of people who are ignorant. We have to handle it with much care."
NA'Abba said what the military did to Shiite was too brutal though he said, it was wrong if really the Shiites blocked the road when the army Chief was passing, but said notwithstanding, the army are suppose to protect not to arm people.
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