Six years after Olusegun Obasanjo left
office, the federal government is set to probe his tenure. The move by the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan to make Obasanjo account for his
conduct in office from 1999 to 2007 may be connected with the former leader’s
constant criticisms of the current regime’s performance in the last two years.
Only on Wednesday during the Democracy
Day celebration, Obasanjo was absent at the ceremony in Abuja. Instead, he was
in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, where he declared that Governor Sule Lamido
could do what Jonathan had failed to do as a leader since he was elected.
LEADERSHIP WEEKEND learnt that, as part
of efforts to ensure that Jonathan secure the PDP presidential ticket in
2015, he is set to show Nigerians that the hands of his sworn critics are,
after all, not clean.
Top among those the Jonathan plans to
expose, especially their alleged misdeeds in office, are Obasanjo and his
cronies.
Although a presidency official denied
the alleged move by Jonathan to probe Obasanjo, LEADERSHIP WEEKEND reliably
gathered that there was no going back in the presidency’s resolve to review the
books of the Obasanjo presidency.
It was also learnt that Obasanjo’s
endorsement of Governor Lamido for the next presidential race was
considered as an open confrontation with the government and “one attack too
many”.
Some of Obasanjo’s loyalists, who
commented on the issue last night, dismissed it, saying that Aso Rock knows
that the former president has nothing to hide.
Also, top members of the PDP caucus in
the south-west ruled out the possibility of the presidency embarking on such
“fruitless adventure”.
Obasanjo and the incumbent President
Jonathan have been having a running battle for the control of the soul of the
PDP in recent times, with the Abeokuta-born soldier-turned-politician casting
aspersions on the leadership style of Jonathan.
A member of the dissolved Olusegun
Oni-led zonal executive committee of the PDP in the south-west said since
Jonathan had not declared his intention to seek re-election it was not likely
that he would be wasting his time chasing perceived enemies.
He stated that if the move was true it
would be counter-productive because neither the president nor the PDP would
benefit from it.
“Even though nothing like that has come
to our notice, the president has not told us so. I know the president won’t do
such a thing; it will be counter-productive to the interest of the party in the
south -west and even to the re-election ambition of the president in 2015,” he
said.
Source: Leadership
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