By Dan Amor
At the convocation ceremony ofBenson Idahosa
University , Benin
City last weekend, former president Olusegun Obasanjo who delivered the
convocation lecture was quoted as saying that Nigerians should not blame him
for the failure of the immediate past President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. He
also was quoted as saying that the actions of Jonathan as President for six
years would continue to haunt the people of the South South geo-political
region for a long time to come. Obasanjo who continues to pose as a messiah
despite his monumental failure for eight miserable years as a civilian dictator
(1999-2007) would not brook any nimbling in castigating Jonathan even when he
knows that Jonathan preformed better than him by far. This has now become his
stock-in-trade since 2012 when it became obvious to him that Jonathan would not
allow him to have his scuttled third term agenda through the back door.
At the convocation ceremony of
*Jonathan, Obasanjo
Jonathan resisted his attempt to manipulate him while acting as the Board of Trustees chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP). When he tried this gambit a few months to the 2015 presidential election, Nigerians had thought that his mission was simply to sway Jonathan's support base. But the reactions of Nigerians of varied backgrounds to Obasanjo's old tricks showed that Nigerians are no fools. The people's condemnation of Obasanjo's arrant hypocrisy was overwhelming. The first reaction came from no less a personality than the traditional ruler of
Now, he is poised to incriminate Jonathan while making himself look like a saint before Nigerians. But does Obasanjo possess the moral credentials to speak from a higher pedestal than Jonathan? Due largely to the lamentable short memory of homosepiens, it seems as though we have forgotten so soon about the person of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and his recent past. But the poor boy from