Opinion by AlakeDele: Lest Nigerian youths be deceived by Obasanjo’s sanctimony and revisionism via thecableng
January 3, 2023 7:38 PMOn the whole, the latest epistolary misadventure by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is a gratuitous insult to the collective intelligence of Nigerians. In particular, his laborious attempt to prey on the innocence of a much younger generation constitutes a grievous assault on public morality, seeking to force morsels of sheer falsehood down the throats of a demography perhaps too young to comprehend events which Obasanjo furiously tried to misrepresent.
While Obasanjo’s right to support any candidate of his choice in the forthcoming presidential polls must be recognised as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution, how condescending of him to decree his preference on Nigerians based on a cocktail of bare-faced lies and crude revisionism.
Under Obasanjo’s watch, a senate panel found that national assets — indeed our common patrimony built from independence in 1960 — worth $100 billion were auctioned to cronies and fronts at a ridiculous $1.3 billion through a dubious privatisation programme. This constituted the root of the massive joblessness in the country.Also, the House of Reps committee found that Obasanjo wasted $16 billion on the so-called power projects. Rather than electricity, Nigerians experienced the worst darkness.
To start with, many will easily recall that the same Obasanjo had issued a statement shortly after the APC candidate paid him a courtesy call months back categorically stating that the visit was “non-political” in response to “misconception in a section of the media”. So, how come this contradiction now? In any case, keen watchers of political events will attest that Tinubu’s accustomed progressive leaning is antithetical to Obasanjo’s imperial messianism.
Indeed, the redrawing of Nigeria’s electioneering calendar is a testament to Obasanjo’s rigging inclination. Today, off-season governorship contests are organised by INEC in states like Edo, Osun, Ekiti, and Kogi due to the theft of popular mandate under Obasanjo’s watch, having declared the 2007 polls a “do or die” for his party. In Edo, Osun and Ekiti in particular, it is a well-known fact that Tinubu spearheaded the struggle to retrieve the stolen mandates through the court.
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