Obasanjo-Atiku Liar,Tinubu Thief

In his new auto biography launched in Lagos yesterday the former president Olusegun Obasansanjo clearly described the former lagos state governor Tinubu as  one of  the most corrupt governor during ris reign as president and he described the former vice president Atiku Abubaka as 'a blatant and shameless liar'.

The former President also berated incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan describing him as an incompetent leader who has failed Nigerians. He also stated that Jonathan’s administration is inept and a colossal failure.


On Umaru Yar’adua’s illness, Obasanjo maintained that the late former president deceived him about the state of his health.

“The unprepared and unplanned transition from Yar’Adua to Jonathan was a more difficult exercise in some respects. One reason was the ‘cloak and dagger’ manner in which Yar’Adua’s illness was handled.”

“The illness of a President cannot be regarded as private. His health has implications for the security and wellbeing of the nation. For the president and those around him to have attempted strenuously to keep the fact of the severity of his illness from public smacks of ignorance of the enormity of what the job entails and the level of provinciality of their understanding, attitude, and approach,” Obasanjo said.

He blamed the third term saga, in which he was implicated, on Atiku

“Those who can be regarded as influential and who have publicly accused me of allegedly manipulating a third term were Atiku Abubakar, who is a blatant and shameless liar.”

“Atiku was behind the whole episode of turning wholesome constitutional amendment efforts of the National Assembly to a futile exercise and as a means of riding on its ashes to be a Nigerian President,” he wrote.

“If I did not want tenure elongation when I was military Head of State, I see no reason why I should be falsely accused of coup planning by Abacha and tenure elongation by Atiku,” he added.

On Tinubu, he said:

“Nuhu Ribadu tried to investigate almost all of them to the best of my understanding. At a time, he publicly announced that 28 out of the 36 governors were either manifestly corrupt or had tainted in one way or other. He gave me a copy of his report on those governors. Bola Tinubu was definitely one of the worst cases.”