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2023: Obasanjo turns down PDP�s request to return to party

January 23, 2022January 23, 2022 Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared that he would never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), saying he has retired from partisan politics. The ex-president, who renounced his membership of the party in 2015, stated this when he received the PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and other stakeholders who visited him on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to sources, the visit was targeted at returning the former president to the opposition party ahead of the 2023 general elections. But, Obasanjo, while addressing the stakeholders, said he had vowed…

Obasanjo decorates son as Brigadier-General

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has decorated his son, Adeboye Obasanjo as Brigadier-General in the Nigerian Army, following his promotion and having passed through the military mills within and outside Nigeria. Chief Obasanjo a former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was accorded a rare privilege by the military authorities on Wednesday to decorate his son with his newly acquired promotion of a Brigadier-General at the Nigerian Engineering Corp at the Bonny Camp, Lagos. The two-term civilian President and former Military Head of State, who is…

“Nigeria collapsing under �fraudulent� 1999 Constitution” – Ijaw National Congress to Obasanjo

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 Aminu Imam

The President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Professor Benjamin Okaba, has berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo for using the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria to justify his claims that crude oil and gas in the Niger-Delta belonged to the country and not the people of the region. Okaba, who stated this during a television programme yesterday, described Obasanjo�s position as a second thought as it contradicts his earlier argument that mineral resources in the Niger-Delta were given by God for all Nigerians. He argued that the former President could not…

‘Oil, other minerals don�t belong to their existing locations’, Obasanjo replies Edwin Clark

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Aminu Imam

Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has told foremost Ijaw statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, that crude oil or any other minerals located in any territory in Nigeria do not belong to the areas they are found. In his response to a letter he received from the ex-federal commissioner of information, who had complained of the former president�s �unprovoked outburst against the people of the Niger-Delta�, Obasanjo asserted that the ownership claim of crude oil by Niger-Delta amounts to creating sovereign entities within a State. Obasanjo maintained that those who purchase crude oil…

Obasanjo mourns Desmond Tutu, praises his contribution to Nigeria’s debt cancellation

December 27, 2021December 27, 2021 Aminu Imam

�’The world is different because of him� � Archbishop of Canterbury Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday mourned the Late anti-apartheid scion, pro-democracy guru and human rights crusader, the Late Desmond Tutu, who died earlier yesterday, aged 90. Obasanjo, in a condolence letter to the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday, recalled the role played by the Late Tutu in getting the country�s debt cancelled, declaring that his death was a personal loss to him. He stated that �Over the years, Reverend Tutu had shown focused, credible, bold, sensitive…

Social injustice, failed economy fueling insecurity � Eminent Nigerians warn

December 24, 2021December 24, 2021 Aminu Imam

�Says Nigeria postponing doomsday�Our land soaked in blood, gloom -South-East Bishops Eminent Nigerians, including the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Abubakar Sa�ad III and former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, have warned that except the Federal Government changed its attitude towards the issues of marginalisation, and also fix the country’s failing economy, the nation will continue to suffer its insecurity challenges. The duo gave this warning in a communiqu� it issued on Wednesday, at the end of an inclusive security dialogue, jointly organised in Abuja by the Global Peace Foundation and Vision…

“Why I will never support Yoruba nation agitation” – Obasanjo

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has re-affirmed his loyalty and commitment to a united Nigeria. He said he would never support the agitation for a so-called ‘Yoruba nation’. The Buhari-led administration has been battling with secessionist groups, including the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), led by detained Nnamdi Kanu, as well as the Yoruba nation secessionist group spearheaded by Prof. Banji Akintoye and Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho. According to him, �One thing that we�ve together in common is Nigeria. I have never used the so-called ‘Yoruba nation’, and I…

Obasanjo, Sultan, others raise alarm over failing educational standard

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Sa�ad Abubakar III, along with many other scholars, have raised an alarm over the failing education standards in the country. According to them, the importance of Day Secondary School education in Nigeria and lack of attention to it is responsible for some of the vices in Nigerian society. Speaking yesterday, in Abuja, at the unveiling of a book: �Evolution of Day Secondary School in Nigeria�, written by Dr. Yakubu Gambo, the former Nigerian Head of State, who was represented by the…

Insecurity: ‘Nigeria needs State Police now’ � Obasanjo

October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 Aminu Imam

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the creation of State Police. Obasanjo said Nigeria needs state police to effectively tackle the insecurity challenges in the country. He made the call while delivering his speech at a lecture titled: �Social responsibility in nation-building,� to mark the 78th anniversary of Island Club in Lagos, on Friday. The former president said only a safe environment could guarantee nation-building. According to Obasanjo: �I have said it before and I will say it again; Nigeria should have State Police in all the States so…

Independence Day: Obasanjo absent as Buhari, Jonathan, AbdulSalami attend event in Abuja

October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was conspicuously absent yesterday during the 61st Independence Anniversary ceremony at the Eagle Square, in Abuja. The ceremony, which was presided by President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, was also attended by former Head of State, Gen. AbdulSalami Abubakar (rtd); former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience as well as former Vice-President, Namadi Sambo. Others in attendance include Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Tanko; cabinet ministers and other personalities. Also at the…