Obasanjo Must Apologise To Nigerians –ANPP

Source: The Nation Newspaper Published:Monday, January 25th, 2010

All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has demanded an unreserved apology from former President Olusegun Obasanjo for deliberately trying to absolve himself from imposing his successor, President Umaru Yar’Adua, on Nigerians.

A statement on Sunday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Emma Eneukwu, said Obasanjo “has once again shown the great deceit that he is, by publicly declaring that he had no hand in the political brigandage he supervised in 2007 through his infamous ‘do or die’ political philosophy, which threw up Umaru Yar’Adua as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

The statement, which is the party’s official reaction to Obasanjo’s outburst at the Seventh Annual Daily Trust Dialogue in Abuja last Thursday, where the former president invited the wrath of God on himself if he imposed Yar’Adua on the country, added that, “Obasanjo was only playing to the gallery as usual, because one of his greatest disabilities is the penchant to see himself as Nigeria’s messiah.”

According to the statement, “If that outburst by Obasanjo at the event was meant for the Nigerian audience, then the former president owes the Nigerian people an unqualified apology, because his views at that occasion amounted to monumental insult to the citizenry whose memories are not as short as he wants the world to believe.

“In case he has forgotten so soon, we in ANPP wish to remind him that the events that brought Nigeria to this sorry state took place only three years ago and were scripted, directed and executed by himself, with helping hands from his cronies such as Malams El-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu.

“If Obasanjo was not trying to advertise his legendary hypocrisy and deception, he would not have attempted to distance himself from the imposition of Yar’Adua, first on his party, PDP, through manipulation of the party’s convention in 2007, and later on Nigerians through the fraudulent Presidential election, which he directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct on April 21, 2007.

“Obasanjo knows that Nigerians are not unaware of the fact that so many Presidential aspirants of the PDP in 2007 were forced to step down through some coercive instruments of state directed at them by Obasanjo to pave the way for his choice, Yar’Adua, to emerge as the party’s Presidential candidate.

“In the sham elections organised by INEC, which were roundly condemned by both Nigerians and foreigners alike, do we need to remind Obasanjo of the crimes he committed against humanity through his openly advertised philosophy of ‘do or die’ politics, which sent thousands of Nigerians to their untimely graves so that Yar’Adua could be forced on the country as President?

“For a man who did all these to turn round and challenge God to a duel, asking the same “God to punish him” if he is guilty, is the height of megalomaniac tendency.

“But it is not our duty as a political party to decide for God how to respond to Obasanjo’s boisterous sycophancy. We are only concerned with the injuries his comments have further inflicted on the psyche of the Nigerian people. Nigerians therefore, demand an apology from former President Olusegun Obasanjo.”

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