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And here was where Atiku Abubakar, my vice-president, first showed his hand and his character. Without seeking my view or approval, he started planning the installation of Chuba Okadigbo as the senate president. I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about him in the National Party of Nigeria NPN under President Shehu Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of senate president.

I left Atiku to go on his chase while I carried out a meticulous and detailed investigation and background check on each senator from the South-east. The one that appeared most appointablewas Evan Enwerem. I canvassed the senate across the board for his election and he was elected. Atiku did not expect it and he felt sore. He began to strategise for Enwerem to be removed and Chuba Okadigbo to be installed.

His strategy worked because I was at Abuja airport to receive a visiting head of state when the news reached me that the Senate had impeached Enwerem and elected Okadigbo. I was not perturbed. That was the beginning of bribing the legislature to carry out a particular line of action to suit or satisfy the purpose or desire of an individual or a group.

The National Assembly had tasted blood and they would continue to want more. From the day I nominated Atiku to be my vice, he set his mind not for any good, benefit or service of the country, but on furiously planning to upstage, supplant or remove me at all cost and to take my place. That was what I brought him for, but he was impatient and over-ambitious. He was not ready to learn and to wait. His marabout, who predicted that despite being elected as governor, he would not be sworn in as a governor, which happened, also assured him that he would take over from me in a matter of months rather than years.

All his plans, appointments of people and his actions were towards the actualisation of his marabouts prediction. Once I realised his intention and programme, I watched him like a hawk without giving any indication of what I knew and letting down my guard. I could not succumb to the distraction, diversion and malevolence of an ambitious but unwise deputy.

The work in hand was more important than a confrontational relationship with my deputy, a man over whom I knew I had far more experience and outreach in all matters. To alert him of what I knew he was up to, would only lead to lying, denial, more mischievous plans and more duplicity on his part. He was better managed that way. What was important was not allowing myself to be surprised or outmanoeuvred by him. I must always seize the initiative and know what was going on if not in his mind, but at least in his camp.

That I did very effectively. Sometime in the fourth quarter of , an associate of Atiku came to my residence at the Aso Villa from Atikus official residence.

He felt uncomfortable and I tried to make him feel at ease. Then, he settled to tell me the story of what had just transpired in Atikus residence. I listened with rapt attention. He went on to say that Atiku told him that for him to become the President of Nigeria, the elections were only a formality.

The seven ingredients he needed for his enthronement were already in his hands. He controlled the National Assembly because both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were in his pocket. He controlled twenty-eight out of thirty-six governors. He had control of the media. His influence over the judiciary was overwhelming. What he needed was foreign endorsement and for that he had employed two lobby groups in the US and one in the UK. And finally, the money for the elections was in his purse.

When the man finished, I thanked him without passing any comment. The man was surprised at my reaction and asked, You have nothing to say to these? I said that I had. My casual remark struck Chris and he said, Sir, that was a profound statement. I said that I made the statement because of what I had just heard of Atikus plan. Home About Contact. Many reports, emails and comments received by us suggest that the price of the book is too high, and that the price should be review downward to afford them opportunity to grab a copy of the book and also encourage more people to read.

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Deliver to other location can be arranged with us for the best option. Just call There are hundreds of pages of documents and private correspondences between the author and many of the leading political figures of our time. Clearly, these documents were included to validate and refute claims. However, their true value is in the substance they provide to serious students of contemporary Nigerian political science, and in deed, African history.

Scholars would pore over these notes for decades to properly position the actions and in-actions of our various political rulers. This book is very important because it may motivate the various political actors who have been taciturn in the inner workings of government to defend their integrity, explain their actions, and provide context. So what kind of man do we find in those pages of the book?

Probably the same Obasanjo you already know. A charming storyteller with a lot of humour and, in the same breathe, a dogged fighter who will uphold his convictions irrespective of negative or positive sentiment. The author, in his watchman role, does not fail to name and shame those he considers to have worked against the progress of Nigeria.

No one is beyond reproach. No character too big to be cast in what he sees to be their true image, which, in most cases, are contemptible. In the book, Obasanjo described Buruji as a fugitive wanted in the US.

Some personalities who have presented themselves as leaders and reformists will have to present counter-evidence to defend their reputation: Abubakar Atiku, Bola Tinubu, Tony Anenih, Nasir El Rufai, and many others.

In the book, their characters are presented as defective as their personas are large. What most readers will enjoy about this book is that, true to his character, President Obasanjo did not shy away from addressing any of the more public episodes in his long public career.

Like a good trial lawyer, he weaves a good narrative that absolves him of any blame while providing evidence to show where the blames should go. For the benefit of Nigerians and posterity, those the author has accused of wrongdoing should provide rebuttals supported with evidence.

This anticipated exchange will help Nigerians connect the dots, see the true picture of what has transpired, and learn whatever lessons there may be from these earlier mistakes.

It is, however, instructive, that the more personal, family scandals such as the allegations made by his first wife or daughter, are dismissed as personal issues that are being handled within the family. He provides documentary evidence where those who should know Senators Hambagda, Ibrahim Mantu and Florence Ita Giwa exonerated him from such an agenda.

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