I thought it was designed to be a joke. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu stood
reverently in front of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, pleading
with him to come and rescue Nigeria along with the APC. “We’re resolved
and determined to rescue Nigeria... we want you to be our navigator,”
Tinubu told Obasanjo. Like seriously? All you need to attain sainthood
in Nigeria today is to be opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan. If
Gen. Sani Abacha were alive and had written Obasanjo’s kind of letter to
Jonathan, he would have become an instant hero. Just six years ago, I
would have sworn that nobody would ever take Obasanjo’s views seriously
again, but this is Nigeria where our memory is so shallow. Misfits get
easily rehabilitated. We are told to ignore the messenger, even when the
messenger is the eternally manipulative “navigator”.
I would like to remind Tinubu, and other easily excited Nigerians,
about the antics of the man called Obasanjo. Lagos State would have been
enjoying uninterrupted power supply today but for the petty “navigator”
who interrupted Tinubu’s independent power projects. Obasanjo tried to
frustrate the Enron-built AES power plant (which today supplies 230mw)
until Tinubu reportedly went to prostrate to His Imperial Majesty inside
his hallowed chambers at Aso Rock. But the “navigator” still made sure
the other phases of the project did not see the light of the day.
The 4th Mainland Bridge would have been completed by now but for
Tinubu’s “navigator” who refused to give the necessary Country Guarantee
to secure a World Bank loan. (The same Obasanjo is hypocritically
accusing Jonathan of stalling the Rivers water project - and Nigerians
are clapping for him). In the 2003 elections, the “navigator” did
everything to uproot Tinubu as the governor of Lagos State. On INEC’s
website, Funsho Williams (PDP) had been announced as the winner, the
same way other AD governors were swept out. I still don’t know how
Tinubu survived.
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