Olusegun Obasanjo

Obasanjo explained that he was constrained to write the letter to all Nigerians, especially young Nigerians, friends of Nigeria globally as...

He added: “From all indications, the G5 governors are not ready to work with the presidential candidate of their party and I am sure they are likely going to work for either the APC or LP Candidate. The letter is further demonstrating that if Obi becomes President, he would have too many people to be answerable to and this would affect his focus on delivering on good governance. It is amazing that those who had opportunity to help Nigerians and did not are now running to support Obi. Peter Obi’s LP is like a new team and every new team will gather momentum but the matter is if it will be enough to win the election. One may be tempted to ask that before this letter, apart from him enjoying juicy position as youth, of what impact was his administration to the youth that we can make reference to today. The future of Nigeria is in the same manner in your hands and literally so. “The power to change is in your hands. Your present and future are in your hands to make or to mar. “Although at that time, Nigeria was in very bad shape and was tottering on the verge of collapse and break-up. “Others like all of us have what they can contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria collectively. I was pained that most of them do not realise that the Nigeria of today had been dragged down well below Nigeria of the beginning of my Presidency in June 1999. I will not deny such positions since I have worked with all of them directly and indirectly in government.

Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari has again lambasted ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo for endorsing ...

The candidate is in touch with the president and gives reports and updates from time to time.” “Ordinarily we leave Obasanjo to say whatever he wants to say and it doesn't affect the achievement of our administration. Last Sunday, Obasanjo, via a six-page open letter, appealed to the youth to ensure that they vote the right persons into the various elective posts.

The letter had barely landed when the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and, in fact, the Presidency all ...

And even when he was a candidate, he lost resoundingly in his own state and his South-West backyard in 1999, only to wrest swathes of the region in a do-or-die subterfuge four years later. And for those too blind to see the repression committed in plain sight, Obasanjo’s military regime shipped some offshore, to an island 100 km off the coast of Lagos, called Ita-Oko, where critics of the military regime were imprisoned. If Obasanjo was less lustful of power, less controlling, and less obsessed with becoming the only cock in the neighbourhood that must crow, the deadly ferment in Igboland today, which is a product of decades of injustice, might have been mitigated. And the youth to whom he addressed his letter might do well to remember, too. All of this hardly diminishes Obasanjo’s outstanding international record, his appetite for the limelight, and, of course, his love of drama. Another problem that Obasanjo correctly identified is the sheer scale, scope, and complexity of the work required to retrieve Nigeria from the brink. If you want to know how much Obasanjo loved the youth in his heyday, ask those who witnessed the “Ali-Must-Go” students’ protest in 1978. In addition to being the country’s largest vote banks, three regions – the North-West, the South-West, and the South-South – currently hold the largest concentration of this youth population. It is Andrew plus the mini-exodus of the post-1993 annulled elections, only more gifted and determined than both combined. Yet, if you have seen the lines at any of the embassies in Lagos or Abuja lately—lines spilling onto the pavements and main roads from behind huge iron gates and turnstiles manned by hefty private embassy security men, set against desperate young faces teeming with frustration—then you will know that what we have on our hands today is worse than the Andrews of the 1980s. And those among them who are registered would be voting for the first time, if they have not joined the massive “japa wave” sweeping the country. Whatever the misgivings of the affected parties, I’m sure most might agree on the central message: that young people, who constitute 65 per cent of Nigeria’s population and, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, 76.5 percent of nine million newly registered voters, would play a significant role in the forthcoming general elections.

Garba Shehu the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari was asked why he described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a ...

Garba Shehu also went on to explain why President Buhari is not on the campaign train with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2023 elections. But the records have to be set and the facts have to be stated, this is why we responded to him’. In a recent interview with media personality, Kikelomo Atanda-Owo, Garba Shehu the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari was asked why he described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as a ‘morally dirty man for endorsing Peter Obi’.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo's endorsement of the Labour.

He didn’t even know that a civil servant can not do any other business apart from agriculture. He said: “Atiku was a custom officer who said he made money selling cars, that is smuggling. Tinubu said Atiku’s claim that he made money from the car business when he was a custom officer was false.

Mr Lamido said Mr Obasanjo failed to understand that the PDP made him what he is.

To me, whether it’s Obasanjo or any other person he is talking about because he was a former president, under the PDP. “So, it’s very sad that a man that was made by PDP demeaned PDP. I respect him but we have to stand by our tradition, the history of our political party, our philosophy, and PDP made Nigeria what it’s today. “The monopoly he has in Nigeria space he will not have it. “Mr Obasanjo talks because he was a former president. Others like all of us have what they can contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria collectively,” Mr Obasanjo said in an open letter on Sunday.

CHIEF Olusegun Obasanjo is not new to striking the marsh with his long, strong staff. The elderly man has done it yet again with the same vigour and.

5 of the report quoted Obasanjo to have said: “We have been told that governance has been abdicated to a cabal. The message today is that the younger generation of Nigerians should use their tongue to count their teeth. Obasanjo said in 2013 that “Nigeria is bleeding and the hemorrhage must be stopped.” And one of the ways to stop that was to stop Jonathan, according to him. It is still the same Obasanjo that warned Goodluck Jonathan of that era via a letter that it was “fatally morally flawed” to run for presidential election in 2015. Obasanjo has charted a course for the young Nigerians to navigate and explore. Again, the elder should not be in the market and gloss over the awkwardly bent head of a sapling. Critically look at the TVCP he has devised and defined it as track record, vision, character and physical/mental ability requisite for the job at hand. Obasanjo has to accept the duty of watching over this country that has given him so much and from which he has benefitted so much. Obasanjo has seen and lived the two sides of the same coin. Professor Akinyemi thinks Chief Obasanjo should just keep quiet, that the Balogun Owu should take a seat and watch things from the background like General Yakubu Gowon and other former Nigerian leaders. He would continue in his duty of giving out of his rich experience to ensure that Nigeria remains afloat and healthy. CHIEF Olusegun Obasanjo is not new to striking the marsh with his long, strong staff.

Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, has described the endorsement of Labor Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, by former President Olusegun.

“We urge our party faithful and supporters to turn out en masse, as usual, in the forthcoming campaign rallies. “Our attention has been drawn to a plethora of fake social media accounts, especially Twitter bearing General Babangname names and photos. Ologungba said, “The overwhelming chanting of “Atiku! This is a big mistake in the annals of history that will not be forgotten. Reacting to the outcome of the Oyo rally, PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Hon Debo Ologungba, commended the tenacity of PDP members and supporters in Oyo State to express their support for Atiku at the flag-off of the PDP governorship campaign in Ibadan on Thursday in defiance to attempts to dictate their electoral preference. The PDP hailed what it called the commitment and courage of the people of Oyo State to support Atiku and all other candidates of the party in the 2023 general elections.

The former governor of Jigawa State and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said that it was unfortunate and sad for ...

The former governor then welcomed his deputy back to PDP, adding that PDP still remains their home as they are among the builders of the party. According to him, it is PDP that made Obasanjo what he is today, not Peter Obi or any other political party, but just because of his personal interest he dumped the party. The former governor of Jigawa State and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said that it was unfortunate and sad for former president Olusegun Obasanjo to endorse Peter Obi as his presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.

Nigerian youths on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who converged on Abeokuta, Ogun State, for their national summit,

Recall that on New Year Day, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo had, among other issues, announced his preferrence for the Labour Party's presidential ...

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Former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido, on Friday said Peter Obi's endorsement, the Presidential candidate of Labour Party by former President Olusegun ...

Divergent views have continued to trail the endorsement of the Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. On.

”I think the APC and the PDP are still living in self denial but in the next couple of weeks they will realise that Nigerians have made up their mind to take back their country. How can a former Head of State military, former President endorse someone and you say the endorsement mean nothing? The former spokesman of the Trade Union Congress said, ”If Obasanjo is not important, why did Tinubu visit him?

Criticisms continue to trail the decision of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to endorse the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, |

[Yakubu Gowon](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/gowon-advocates-zoning-rotational-presidency-in-nigeria/) (rtd.) is preaching unity. [Investigations3 months ago](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/investigation-inside-kwara-school-where-students-are-used-as-labour-on-teachers-private-farms/) [Investigations3 months ago](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/investigation-how-n70m-road-construction-created-more-hardship-for-sokoto-residents/) [Investigations1 month ago](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/special-report-world-bank-road-projects-go-bad-in-enugu-as-state-govt-fails-to-fulfill-promise/) [Investigations1 month ago](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/students-suffer-as-contractors-abandon-kano-school-projects-after-receiving-over-n70m/) [Investigations3 weeks ago](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/investigation-in-cross-river-civil-servants-retire-into-poverty-as-govt-looks-away-squanders-funds-on-frivolities/) General Abdulsalaam Abubakar (rtd.) is preaching peace. His action is directed towards renewed anti-Muslim campaign as he bays and ululates all over the place, particularly in churches, in his usual rambling manner. In the same vein, Obi received the support of Pan Niger Delta Forum Chairman Edwin Clark on Tuesday. [Politics](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/politics/) [‘Obasanjo, Clark disgraced themselves by endorsing Obi’, Kwankwaso fumes](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/obasanjo-clark-disgraced-themselves-by-endorsing-obi-kwankwaso-fumes/) [Obi](https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/group-urges-g5-governors-to-adopt-peter-obi-for-2023-election/) on January 1, 2023, saying he had an advantage over the other candidates.

Former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido, on Friday said Peter Obi's endorsement, the Presidential candidate of Labour Party by former President Olusegun ...

So for me obasanjo is talking because he was a president, if he was not will he talk like this? We have to stand by our conviction, by the history of our party our philosophy and know that PDP made Nigeria what it is today “He is doing it because he is angry with Tinubu or Atiku, what is their crime.