LETTER TO EX-GENERAL AND FORMER MILITARY HEAD OF STATE AND PRESIDENT, OLUSEGUN OBASANJO

[Salimonu Kadiri]

​Dear ex-General and former military head of State (1976-1979) and former President Olusegun Obasanjo (1999-2007),

I​ have read your epistle to the ex-General and former Military Head of State (1983-1984), and who by happenstance is the current President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, over your concern for the security situation in Nigeria today. Since you have ruled Nigeria as a Dictator for three years and three months (1976-1979) and later as a democratic President for eight years (1999-2007), I regret to inform you, as Yoruba people adage goes, that if there is boil on the face of jackal the fowl is not fit to talk about it. If Buhari's government is bad, your own government was worse and as such you are not qualified to pass any judgment on today's regime. In fact, the evil fruits of the trees from which Nigerians are reaping today were planted by your regime. I will come back to that later, but first I must say something about Buhari.

​Time runs fast and four years would soon be tomorrow. When Buhari won the Presidential election in 2015, his political party, APC also won comfortable majority in the National Assembly, a situation which could have rendered the implementation of the APC's manifesto very easy. However, because of the lukewarm attitude of Buhari at that time and the gross incompetence of the then National Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, the new PDP in the garment of APC merged with the old PDP in a parliamentary coup, and contrary to constitutional provisions, seized the National Assembly. The problem was further compounded by the corrupt judiciary which had become a strong impediment to fighting corruption. If it took over six months to form his cabinet in 2015, one would have expected that his cabinet should be in place on or immediately after his inauguration for the second term and the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly. Indecisions kill surrounding enthusiasm and slow decisions destroy energy. It is not too much of a demand that after election victory, that the APC and its National Working Committee should sit down with the President to approve the list of Ministers. Here we are almost two months  after Presidential inauguration, the Ministers are just being announced. It doesn't speak well for Buhari and the APC as a political party. Having said that, let me return to your letter of 15 July 2019 addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Among other things, you wrote, "For over ten years, for four of which you have been the captain of the ship, Boko Haram has menacingly ravaged the land.

You have dishonestly approximated Boko Haram's emergence in Nigeria to over ten years ago in order to exclude the period for which you governed as a civilian President (1999-2007). This is very typical of you and one will never be surprised if one has followed how you came to limelight in the Nigerian Army. If you have chosen to forget let me remind you. You were never an infantry officer in the Nigerian Army but an Officer in the Army Engineering corps where you were trained to assemble improvised bridges and to create casual roads for troops to pass. As the then Colonel Benjamin Maja Adekunle was determined to end the Nigerian Civil War, he captured Owerri against the order from Lagos Military Headquarter. For doing that his troops were starved of weapons to defend and retain Owerri causing the rebels to recapture the town. The recapture of Owerri by the Biafrans on 25 April 1969 was exploited as an excuse to change the three Commanders at the war front. You will surely remember that when the then Prime Minister of Britain, Harold Wilson, visited Nigeria in March 1969, he specifically requested to visit Colonel Adekunle at the War Front. It was generally believed that Harold Wilson visited Colonel Adekunle in the company of MI6, who warned against Adekunle winning the war. Due to bickering and intrigues of that time, Alani Akinrinade who should have replaced Adekunle was side-lined in your favour as the Commander of the Third Division. By your own account, page 124, in your book, My Command as well as page 296 of Philip Efiong's book, Nigeria & Biafra, My Story, it was to Colonel Alani Akinrinade that Biafra's General, Philip Efiong, surrendered at the war front while you came later as a hyena to seize the heifer killed by the leopard. By the time you took over the Command of the Third Division as a figure head, Owerri was the only significant town in the rebel's hands. In reality, Colonel Benjamin Maja Adekunle had finished the war for you to only come to claim gallantry for discovering a dead lion killed by him.

The nine-year-old regime of General Yakubu Gowon was brought to an end in a bloodless military coup of 29 July 1975 and General Murtala Ramat Muhammed became Head of State instead. You Olusegun Obasanjo became his deputy. General Murtala Muhammed was conservative but also very nationalistic. At that time, nationalists in Africa were considered as Socialists or Communists by the Western World. On 13 February 1976, the life of Murtala Muhammed was cut short, in Lagos, with rains of bullets in a military coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Sukar Bukar Dimka. On that day your whereabout could not be traced. While on the run hiding somewhere, it was the Army Chief of Staff then, Lieutenant General Theophilus Yakubu Danjumo, who took over the command to flush out the coup makers from the National Broadcasting Corporation, where Dimka in a broadcast had accused Muhammed of introducing Communism in Nigeria. After the military coup of Dimka was quelled and General Muhammed had been killed, you emerged from your hiding place to become Head of State. In your first three months in power, you struggled to convince the Western World that your government was not going to pursue socialist programmes and policies. Then in May 1976, you caused your Foreign Minister, Major-General Joseph Garba, to call a meeting of Western World Ambassadors in Nigeria at the Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, where he declared that the Federal Military Government led by you had no interest in pursuing socialist goals which your assassinated predecessor in office had been accused of.

Although, you handed over power to a civilian regime in 1979, the military seized power again at the end of December 1983 and General Muhammadu Buhari emerged as the new head of government. About a year later, he was butted out of office by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who promised to handover power to a civilian regime at appropriate time. It took Babangida eight years to arrange for elections but at the end of the exercise, he annulled the Presidential election adjudged as having been won by Moshood Abiola. While the entire world was awed by the annulment of the election of 12 June 1993, Nigeria, you stated publicly that Abiola was not the Messiah Nigerians were waiting for. It was rumoured that Babangida had promised to hand over power to you to lead an interim government but he reneged by installing Earnest Shonekan, the same Egba man like you and Abiola as the head of an interim government while he, Babangida, claimed stepping aside. Six months later, General Sani Abacha seized power and kicked out the unelected Ernest Shonekan. You tried to play prank with Sani Abacha, and he demontrated the brute in him by bundling you, and your Chief of Staff, Supreme Military Head Quarters, 1976-1979, Major-General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, into prison. While you were in prison, Abacha planned to transform himself into a civilian President. Suddenly the hunting dog of God, death, struck him, on 8 June 1998, and after his demise General Abdulsalami Abubakar came to power. Few days later, M.K.O. Abiola who was illegally detained in prison by General Sani Abacha for insisting on claiming the mandate given to him in the annulled election, died in prison under questionable circumstance.

As​ General Abubakar decided to end military rule and usher in democratic form of government, the power brokers believed that there was need to placate the Yoruba people for the death of Abiola, by zoning the Presidential candidate to the Southwest. You were pardoned and released from prison by General Abdulsalami Abubakar to become the candidate of the PDP in the presidential election of Spring 1999. In that election, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) adopted Olu Falae of the ANPP as its Presidential candidate. The result of that election showed clearly that the people of the Southwest did not want you to be the President of Nigeria, perhaps because of your remark earlier on June 12, 1993, election that Abiola was not the Messiah Nigerians were waiting for. Not even your polling unit did you win. Once again, you reaped the fruits of the political labour of Abiola against the wish of the people of the Southwest as the rest of the country voted you. Thus, you became accidental President of Nigeria just as you once became the Military Head of State of Nigeria. Once in power, you behaved as a lottery winner called upon to preside over huge financial empire, and the results have been catastrophic for the country. When you wrote that since over ten years, out of which Buhari in the last four years has been in power, Boko Haram has menacingly ravaged Nigeria, you are not being honest in your assertion. I will state why.

In year 2000, twelve States in the northern part of Nigeria declared their intention to introduce the Islamic Sharia Law in their States. It was a move that introduced religion into politics. Although the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria permits freedom of Religion and association, Section 10 of the Constitution specifically states, "The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any Religion as a State Religion." Yet, your reaction to the introduction of Islamic Sharia law in the twelve States of the North was nonchalant. You simply stated that Sharia Law would fizzle away with time despite the fact that hands were being chopped off from impoverished citizens for stealing chickens in order to feed their starving families. Sharia Law was the offspring of Boko Haram. When you mentioned Boko Haram, you chose to forget that it started in Borno State in 2002 as a religious group known as Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad, meaning People committed to the propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad. May I remind you that you were the President of Nigeria at that time if you have forgotten. Between 2004 and 2009, they grew as a movement. They started farms and provided employment for their members, provided welfare for disabled members, trained people in skilled labour and, in fact, provided an alternative to the Federal and State's government of that time, which attracted more members for them. By 2007, the Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, saw the potential influence of the religious sect and decided to bring them under his influence. Therefore he appointed a member of the sect, Alhaji Buju Foi as Borno State Commissioner for Religious Affairs. When your second term as President ended in May 2007, you singlehandedly picked your successor, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and his Vice, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. They continued where you stopped. In February 2009, the government of Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State banned riding of motorbikes without wearing helmet. Governor Sheriff had hoarded helmets in order to make millions of naira. There was no problem until July 2009 when a prominent member of the sect died and a large number of the sect rode in convoys of motorcycles, without wearing helmets, to bury him. Police stopped the burial processions of the motorcyclists for lack of helmets. Violence broke out and police shot and wounded sect members on their way to bury one of their beloved members. The following day the sect poured out in large numbers, attacked and killed police in Bauchi, Borno and Yobe States. Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State was captured and controlled for three days until the Army was called in to help. The Army regained control and arrested the Sect Leader, Mohammed Yusuf, and a lot of his members. Mohammed Yusuf was handed over to the Police in whose custody he died under questionable circumstance. Even the Commissioner of Religious Affairs in the ANPP controlled Borno State's government, Buji Foi, was shot at the back as online video of that time showed. As stated earlier, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (PDP) was the President. That was how what is now known as Boko Haram started during your regime in 2000  and grew stronger in 2013 under President Goodluck Jonathan.

​When Muhammadu Buhari ascended to the Presidency in 2015, Boko Haram was in control of 50,000 square kilometres land mass of Nigeria's territory and, as a matter of fact, their leader, Abubakar Shekau, had declared Gwosa, which they renamed Darul Hikma, in Borno State as the capital of their Islamic Caliphate on 24 August 2014. Today, Boko Haram is not in militarily control of any land territory in Nigeria although they can still hit and run here and there.

Further in your letter to President Buhari, you wondered, "How else do you deal with issues such as only 50% literacy in North-East with over 70% unemployment?"

It was General Yakubu Gowon that introduced Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1973, which you modified in 1976. The government of National Party of Nigeria (NPN) which you Obasanjo installed in 1979 abolished UPE on the ground that it wanted to pursue qualitative and not quantitative education. On your return to power in 1999 you introduced UPE under another name, Universal Basic Education (UBE). It was not your idea but that of the Western World who included it in a developmental package for entire Africa known as Millenium Development Goal (MDG) 2000-2015. In the MDG, which you signed in year 2000, it was undertaken that all Nigerian children of school age would be in schools by the year 2015. Your eight years as President of Nigeria failed to produce Universal Basic Education for Nigerian children and indeed the sixteen years of PDP government that expired on 29 May 2015 failed to put Nigerian children of school age in schools because funds sourced nationally and internationally were stolen by the ruling elites and the civil servants that served under you. The 16 years rule of PDP in Nigeria cemented illiteracy in the Northeast and laid the foundation for today's mass unemployment in the country. At the end of your tenure as President, you built Bell University which is beyond the reach of ordinary Nigerians. Likewise your Vice, Atiku Abubakar, built America University of Nigeria in which only children of well-to-do Nigerians can gain admission. Nigerians need not bother about the source of the money with which each of you could afford to build universities, but now when you come to complain about 50% illiteracy, Nigerians must wonder how many primary schools could have been provided for children at the cost of Bell's University and American University of Nigeria.

It is astonishing to read a part of your letter to President Buhari which is as follows, "Herdsmen/farmers crises and menace started with the government treating the issue with cuddling glove instead of hammer. It has festered and spread. Today, it has developed into banditry, kidnapping, armed robbery and killings all over our country." I regard the above-quoted part of your letter as astonishing because you were one of the dignitaries present at the Eagle Square on 29 May 2015, during the inauguration of Buhari as the President. In his inaugural speech he said among other things as follows, "Boko Haram is not only the security issue bedevilling our country. The spate of kidnappings, armed robberies, herdsmen/farmers clashes, cattle rustlings, all help to add to the general air of insecurity in our land. We are going to erect and maintain an efficient, disciplined people - friendly and well-compensated security forces within and over - all security architecture." The farmers herdsmen crises were there during your time as President of Nigeria and you applied your hammer at Zaki Biam in Benue State but the clashes in Benue continued under your watch. It was during your Presidency that the business of kidnapping for ransom escalated in Niger Delta. Banditry became a trend in Nigeria after you openly supported the invasion of Anambra State by Chris Uba's thugs, that burned down government radio station, kidnapped the Governor, Chris Ngige, from whom they tried to extort a letter of resignation. Your Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige was murdered in a broad-day light by unknown assassins, among numerous murders that occurred during your presidency and are still unresolved today. While you were busy allocating oil blocks to friends and concubines, unemployed youths in the Niger Delta became militants and kidnappers. You applied your hammer at Odi in Bayelsa but the youths got more militant and kidnapped more to get their own share of Nigeria's nature-baked cake. After your exit from power, President Yar'Adua and his Deputy, Jonathan, negotiated with Niger Delta militants resulting in amnesty for militants who surrendered their weapons and a monthly payment of N65, 000. The online Sahara Reporters of 30 April 2019 reported that the Niger Delta militants have reverted to kidnapping travellers because the Federal government had stopped paying them amnesty allowances. What sledge hammer do you expect Buhari to apply to the various crimes birthed during the 16 years rule of PDP? After exposing the judiciary of auctioning justice to the highest bidder, Buhari forwarded an Executive Bill to the National Assembly in February 2016, for the purpose of enacting a special tribunal to deal with cases of corruption, kidnapping, narcotics and cattle rustling. The new and old PDP controlled National Assembly prevented the Bill from seeing the light of the day. Thus, a well-known billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has been undergoing trial for the past one year in the ordinary court of law without any headway due to complacency of the judiciary. May I add that the supplier of arms and ammunition to Alias Evans and other kidnappers, Godwin Chinyere, has been arrested. Perhaps, to you, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, Alias Evans, and Godwin Chinyere are suspected Fulani herdsmen on Islamisation and Fulanisation mission of Nigeria under President Buhari, who is a Fulani.    

It was you that promulgated Land Use Decree and introduced Operation Feed the Nation during your era as Nigeria's Military Head of State. As it turned out, you intentionally promulgated Land Use Decree in order to appropriate to yourself a large portion of  communal land at Ota and elsewhere in Nigeria. If it was the nation's interest, and not selfish interest, that motivated you into promulgating Land Use Decree and introducing OFN, you ought to have known that Animal Husbandry/cattle breeding is another kind of farming different from crop farming. In 1976, livestock farming should have been ranched and crop's farming mechanised. Due to negligence  of duty by you at that time as well as that of your successors in office, herdsmen are still obliged to roam about, in Nigeria, in search of bush to graze their cattle in the 21st century. Nigeria, was governed for 16 years by the PDP of which you were the President in the first eight years, when the foundation was laid for Nigeria to become the headquarter of failure in Africa and capital of hell on earth. Why are you so cocky to crow that Buhari should do in four years what you were unable to do in eight years and the entire PDP could not do in sixteen years? During your presidential era, you introduced Poverty Eradication Programme (PEP) and halfway into your second term, you changed it to Poverty Alleviation Programme (PAP). The masses of Nigeria who neither experienced poverty eradication nor poverty alleviation called it poverty elongation or expansion programme (the real PEP). What happened to the National Identity Card Project for which you awarded contract to the French Company, SAGEM, and for which you paid $240 million so that every Nigerian of matured age would be issued one? Did you not promise that the ID-Card will be used in National election of 2003? Was it not so that the French Director of the ID-Card company, revealed the names of Nigerian officials in your government that shared the $240 million with some of the French company's officials? While the French Companies officials were tried and jailed in Paris for corruption, your officials who shared in the funds for ID-Card project are still walking free in the streets of Nigeria today. Under your government, the NNPC was being allocated with crude oil of 445,000 barrel/day to be refined at the four national refineries for domestic consumption which at that time was estimated to be around 200,000 barrel/day. Under your watch, Nigeria was (and still is) the only crude oil exporter importing fuel to meet her domestic needs and you shamelessly talked of fuel subsidy. Why the crude oil refineries were in comatose, you told Nigerians, was because of lack of maintenance for many years. You awarded the contract, Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) to your righthand man Chief Emeka Ofor at the cost of millions of dollars each. The refineries never functioned when your eight years tenure ended as your Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) transformed into Take Away Money (TAM) for you and your cronies.  

The technology of electricity and power generation was completed by Robert Boyle, Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday and a host of others a long time ago. In fact the colonial master bequeathed Nigeria with Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN), generated with coal, on their departure from Nigeria. Not all Nigerian household had electric light then but it was constant where people had it. What was left for us to do was to improve and expand the generating and distributing capacity of the ECN. During the time of General Yakubu Gowon, Niger Dam Authority (NDA) and Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN) were merged together to become National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) on 24 November 1974. On 11 March 2005, you, Obasanjo, signed into law the Electricity Power Sector Reform (EPSR), which was transformed into Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria (PHCN), on July 1, 2005. You, Obasanjo, gave license to six semi-independent power generation companies to generate and sell power to the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) at bulk unit cost. The six generating Companies were : Kainji/Jebba Hydro Power Business Unit, Shiroro Hydro Business Unit, Egbin Electric Power Business Unit, Delta Electric Power Business Unit, Afam Electric Business Unit, Afam Electric Business Unit and Sapele Electric Power Business Unit. According to you the Nation would be enjoying 10,000 megawatts of electricity by December 2007, but when you left office in May 2007, the electric generation in the country was under 3,000 megawatts. Sometime in 2018, President Buhari asserted that someone spent sixteen billion US dollars on electric power generation and asked sarcastically, where is the power?. Knowing that it was you, Obasanjo, that Buhari directed the question, you told him, "Read chapters 41, 42, 43, and 47 of  My Watch for my insights and perspectives on the power sector." A honest person should have told Nigerians how much he spent on Electric power generation between 2005 and 2007 if it was $16 billion or not. The question was not about your insights and perspectives on the power sector but how much money you expended to produce darkness for Nigerians. I wonder what kind of human being you are?

Psychologists define a narcissistic personality as a person who identifies self as special and better than other persons and demands attention and admiration; indeed, he/she may exploit other persons and justify it with the supercilious belief that he is superior to them. Much as the aforesaid may be true to your person, I think you are more of a political rodent based on the following explanations. In 2006, when the political fracas between you and your vice President, Atiku Abubakar became public, you accused him of corruption and converting public assets into his personal property. Atiku Abubakar replied that you were the most corrupt in Nigeria because when you came out of Abacha's gulag your bank account contained only N20,000 and your Ota farm was in total ruin. However, he added that not only was your Ota farm resuscitated and booming, your private wealth as of that time was far beyond your legitimate income as full time President of Nigeria. You did everything within your power to see that he didn't succeed you as President of Nigeria. In 2014, you tore your membership card in the PDP and swore never to have anything to do with the Party. On 23 January 2018, you published what was titled : The Way Out - A clarion Call for Coalition for Nigerian Movement. You advocated for a third force against PDP and APC. On 11 August 2018, you stated publicly that God would never forgive you if you supported Atiku Abubakar in his bid to become President of Nigeria in the 2019 election. Then in November 2018, you volte-faced by being present at the PDP presidential primary in Port Harcourt where Atiku Abubakar was elected the PDP presidential flag bearer for 2019 election. You called for a new third force and became the mouthpiece of the old force, the PDP. Seven years after exiting from the presidency, you wrote three volumes of books titled, My Watch. On page 32 of volume 2 of My Watch you wrote about Atiku Abubakar thus, "What I did not know, which came out glaringly later, was his parental background which was somewhat shadowy, his propensity to corruption, his tendency to disloyalty, his inability to say and stick to the truth all the time, a propensity for poor judgement, his belief and reliance on marabouts, his lack of transparency, his trust in money to buy his way out on all issues and his readiness to sacrifice morality, integrity, propriety, TRUTH and NATIONAL INTEREST for self and selfish interest." That is what you wrote about Atiku Abubakar, your vice President, for eight years and seven years after both of you left office. Taking into consideration your public declaration of 11 August 2018 that God would never forgive you if you should support Atiku Abubakar to become President of Nigeria, you really need to tell Nigerians what happened between 11 August 2018 and 17 November 2018 that made you to betray your God, not only by attending PDP presidential primary election nomination in Port Harcourt, the party you exited by publicly tearing your membership card, but by supporting Atiku Abubakar's presidential ambition. Muhammadu Buhari may not be the best person to be the President of Nigeria, but he is many folds better than Atiku Abubakar and you, Olusegun Obasanjo. That is the main point of this short missive of mine to you.

Yours Sincerely,

S. Kadiri           

   

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[Anthony Akinola]

An engaging treatise by Baba Kadiri. I read every word and was immensely profited.

Anthony Akinola

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[Femi Segun]

Shehu Garba has an Assistant. When has it even become a crime to call an erring President to order? Obasanjo did not do well,  therefore Buhari has the license to do worse. What kind of blind loyalty is this, in the face of glaring failure of governance, abuse of the Constitution and a gradual decline to anarchy? He who feels it knows it all. Keep the rationalisation until it gets to your doorstep. Just few days ago, the Vice President implied that  kidnapping was exaggerated by social media, but on Thursday, it moved closer to his ecclesiastic doorstep and the reality is getting clearer. Thank God the people were rescued alive, as the Police made us to believe. Yet no one must mention the name of the angels who kidnapped them: We will be labelled as Hitlers disciplines. It used to be agba kii wa loja ki ori omo tuntun wo. But no more in the age of emotional predilection to  defend the indefensible, goading on   a potential dictator until he bare his full fang 

Femi

On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 4:17 PM Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

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[DR SIKIRU ENIOLA]

This is a distorted analysis of the thread above. Femi Segun should know that this is not a competition ground for political aggrandisement. The facts stated in Kadiri's treatise are unassailable. What we want is how to proceed to make suggestions on resolving the trending issues.

Incidentally, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo himself has retraced his steps of unstatemanliness. His meeting with the Fulani leaders within the last few days diffused the explosive tension generated by his anti Fulani proclamations much earlier. If Buhari has been an Obasanjo, Obasanjo will be languishing in a detention facility for his unguarded, felonious and treasonable utterances and incitements. 

The current spate of insecurity in Nigeria is a grand conspiracy to make the nation ungovernable since the ballot could not do it for the election losers. Without being immodest, the Buhari Administration has confronted all the dimensions of insecurity in Nigeria. The basic problem is that criminals have upper hands in every country because they chose where, when and how to strike. This is where the allegations of local collaboration becomes a compulsive fact. If the locals in Bornu and Zamfara could put together a powerful vigilante group known eventually as the civilian JTF, what happened to the Aare ona  kakanfo. His media threats lived much to desire as they have not gone beyond this level being complicated by the bandits.

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