Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said he would have gotten a third-term in office if he wanted.
Speaking on a television programme on Thursday, the former president said his decision not to run for a third term was because he never wanted it, adding that some ex-governors in his administration also wanted a third term.
He said the governors were waiting for him to make the first move before they pushed for their third-term ambition.
According to Obasanjo: “If I had wanted a third term, I would have gotten it; I didn’t want a third-term. I know some governors working for this, believing that if I, as then president, got a third-term, they would also get it”.
Although his move for a third-term failed following widespread rejection by Nigerians, the former President has continued to deny all insinuations that he never nursed that ambition.
Recall that there were claims that Obasanjo nursed a third-term ambition while in office from 1999 to 2007 when he handed over to the Musa Yar’Adua. There were also claims that Obasanjo attempted to bribe the then National Assembly members with millions of naira, which eventually failed.
