According to Obasanjo, the
President did not believe the pupils were truly abducted until after 18 days.
The sect had abducted some
female pupils of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State on
April 14. The group later released a video where its leader, Abubakar Shekau,
threatened to sell the girls.
Obasanjo said, In an interview
with Bloomberg TV, which was aired on Saturday, ex-president “On the kidnapping
or abduction, the President did not believe that those girls were abducted for
almost 18 days. If the President got the information within 12 hours of the act
and he reacted immediately, I believe those girls would have been rescued
within 24 hours, maximum, 48 hours.
“Don’t forget, they are almost
300 girls. The logistics of moving them is something (delay the sect would have
encountered). Unfortunately, the President had doubts; ‘Is this true? Is this a
ploy by some people who don’t want me to be President again, who is doing
this?’
“I think that was unfortunate
aspect of the whole exercise or situation.”
When asked to comment on the
performance of Jonathan, whose candidacy he supported, Obasanjo said Jonathan
had performed below the expectations of Nigerians.
“It is not about
disappointment; I don’t believe he has performed up to the expectations of many
Nigerians, not just me,” he stated.
While he disagreed that he
‘helped’ Jonathan to the presidency, he said it was God who made him president.
He, however, said people could be instrumental to one’s achievements.
Obasanjo added, “I always tell
the President himself; ‘if God doesn’t want you to be there, you won’t be
there.’ On instrumentality of people, yes, because God wants him to be there.
But having been there, you have to perform. That is what I believe. When you
get there, no matter how, just perform and keep on performing.”
My Take On OBJ.
And how did you handle
terrorism while you were president Sir, sending the Nigerian Army to go and
kill everyone in a particular village and rendering mothers and children
fatherless? Is that the method you advice Jonathan to use?
If you were president in
Nigeria today, I am quite sure Nigeria would have broken up. Who started
corruption in the House of Assembly, who started the Ghana-must-go-bag syndrome?
Nigeria is majorly the way it is today because of what you did while you were
in office and now it’s easy to judge someone else as not performing up to
standard.
People said the only
achievement you had was your appointment, yes appointment not election of the
Late President, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua as your successor. That’s in 8 years as
president. What an achievement.
One of the biggest problems in
this country is our inability to say the truth. We have learnt to paint the
truth is so many different colours but the right colours.
With all due respect
Sir, you are one of the major causes of the problems of this nation. You had
the opportunity to do good for 8 years but continually increased the price of
fuel to pay your friends, gave license to friends to build petrol depot where licenses
should never have been given. See the traffic headache been caused every day at
Apapa and see the numbers of lives been lost on that road each day because of
arm robbery due to the traffic.
Today our refineries are still
not working properly because instead of repairing them, you refer to give your
friends license to import petrol from outside the country, thereby helping
other country’s economy to grow but killing ours.
If you can undo some of the things you did while in office, Nigeria would become a great nation but sadly you can't and we would have to live with those things.
Enough of your
words Mr. Former President, Nigerians have suffered enough because of you.
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