I implore Obasanjo to stop lying before he dies...
By Godwin Alabi-Isama
I am gravely pained to be trading words
with General Olusegun Obasanjo once
again on the history of Nigeria-Biafra War. He is an elder and a former ruler who, ordinarily, should be treated
with utmost respect.
*Alabi-Isama (pix: vanguard)
But how can one genuinely
respect an old man who tells lies like a badly raised child? Obasanjo has
obviously not recovered from the shock inflicted on him by my book, The
Tragedy of Victory in which I exposed the tissues of lies in his
civil war memoir, My Command. It is said that a lie may travel for a thousand miles, but it takes just
one step of truth to catch up with it.
I’m alive to stand up to him on the lies he has
told on the war because I was a major participant in it. I kept
records. With facts and figures at my finger tips, I have debunked
Obasanjo’s lies in part three of my book, consisting of one hundred and
sixty five pages, sixty nine pictures, thirteen military strategies and
tactics, maps and documents. This was the same Obasanjo who
published a fake Federal Government gazette that I was found guilty by the
Army when I was never tried. I have proved that Obasanjo was an
incompetent commander. I have proved that he was a wily and cunning fellow, and
an incredible opportunist who reaped where he did not sow.
I have proved that he was an ingrate and a hypocrite.
More importantly, I have proved that he was a coward, who ran away from
the war front to go and look for phantom ammunition. Rather than
respond to my claims the way a gallant officer should, he has now responded
like a motor-park tout, impugning my person and questioning my
ethnic lineage. I never said I was from Ibadan
