Obasanjo and Buhari
The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili
Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo
and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been
uncovered.
The minister said this in Lagos at the
launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ written by an activist,
Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My
Watch’.
Adesiyan said he had already directed the
Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba; and the Department of State
Service to arrest anybody that made inflammatory statements ahead of
the 2015 elections.
He said, “Many of those in the APC are
disgruntled PDP members who are no longer relevant and because they
could not have their way, they have started to heat up the polity. They
have said they will form a parallel government if they lose.
“I have already told the IG and the DSS to arrest anybody making such mutinous and inflammatory statements.”
Adesiyan said his suspicion was fuelled
by a threat by the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, that the APC
would form a parallel government if the 2015 general elections were
rigged.
He added, “Obasanjo is already planning
to install an interim government with Buhari. But we will vote and we
will work with whoever wins the election.”
Adesiyan, who was detained in 2003 for
the murder of the Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, said the former
President was vindictive and was fighting Jonathan because he (Jonathan)
had refused to be used by him.
The minister, who was later freed over
Ige’s murder, said Obasanjo picked Jonathan as the late President Umaru
Yar’Adua’s running mate because he felt he could control him but his
plans backfired.
The minister said, “He picked a President
that was sick and while we were campaigning for the President, he
(Yar’Adua) was always in Germany receiving treatment. While many were
lobbying for the VP slot, Obasanjo picked a gentleman, Goodluck
Jonathan, who had no strong political base so that he could control him.
“Unfortunately for Obasanjo, God had a
better plan and Jonathan refused to be used. Obasanjo, being the man
that he is, has now teamed up with Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar to
snatch power but Tinubu will outsmart him because we Osun people are
smart. Ask Tinubu, he is my brother, from my state. He is from Iragbiji
while I am from Ode-Omu.”
The Director of Communications, Buhari
Campaign Organisations, Dele Alake, said it was silly for anyone to say
that Buhari was plotting the emergence of an interim government when
Buhari was also participating in the presidential election.
He said, “It must have dawned on
Nigerians that the PDP don’t have any answer to the multifarious
problems plaguing Nigeria and that is why they have resorted to
mudslinging and character assassination.
“If Buhari was planning an interim
government, why would he be running for President in the first place? I
think sanity has taken leave from them.
“Buhari remains the only viable solution
to the quagmire that Nigeria has fallen into and it will take a
disciplined person like Buhari to straighten things out.”
When contacted, a source close to
Obasanjo, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was only the
ex-president that could react to the allegation.
The source told our correspondent on the telephone, “It is only Baba that can react to the matter.”
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