‘You’re Sick, Primitive, With Memory Loss’ : Farmer OBJ Opens Fire On Herder PMB Over $16b Power Spend
The Oasis Reporters
May 23, 2018
Bottom left: Sani Abacha, Muhammadu Buhari.
All army generals and coup specialists.
Blinded by anger over former enthusiastic supporters of his then presidential candidacy, now turned bitter opponents to his reelection bid, President Muhammadu Buhari turned his guns on his former boss in the army, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo touching on a very sore topic, one that the former general now turned chicken farmer would wish the entire country quickly forgot about. The matter of the $16 billion spent on power with very few light bulbs on, and the money gone down the drain.
It turned out to be a sore mistake.
Obasanjo is not a man to be blackmailed into silence. He is hardened, and knows about keeping chickens quiet, while chasing foxes out of farms. To him, Buhari had bitten off more than he could chew. He gave the president a piece of his virulent tongue.
“How can a president who has all the information at his beck and call degenerate to this level?
Is it on account of a famed short attention span which precludes him from grappling with any serious reading beyond his self confessed affinity for newspaper cartoons?
Is it with this kind of levity that he attends to Federal Executive Council memos?”
“We are now beginning to see the reason why Nigeria is fastly disappearing into abyss of primitive stone age leadership. It really is not too late for him to heed the well considered opinion of his doctor to go home, eat more and sleep more.”
Nigerians watch in bemusement how the battle between the two former military strongmen and military coup beneficiaries would pan out.
For one thing, both of them have experienced the tough love of prison discipline and both of them are reputed to be fearless.
While Buhari was locked up in protective custody by his then army commander, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida who swiftly overthrew him after 20 months as head of state, Obasanjo was imprisoned, in harsh weather prisons, up north of Nigeria by a succeeding military dictator, General Sani Abacha for doing what Obasanjo knows how to do best, writing critical letters against succeeding administrations which led to overthrows or defeats of all his successors.
Abacha was Obasanjo’s Waterloo. While in prison, the pot bellied former general grew so lean, you could count his ribs.
Ironically, Obasanjo became Abacha’s nemesis because all the spiritualists in his south west home region consulted oracles until Abacha gave up the ghost, reputedly between the thighs of two pretty Indian prostitutes.
From Prison, Obasanjo became president for eight years with help from friends and foes. After which he attended the Open University in his Abeokuta neighbourhood.
Today he has a PhD in theology and has become a much better letter writer in his 80s.
Can Buhari match up with Obasanjo’s pen?
Or will he just cave in and avoid the chicken farmer who has a doctorate degree?
No one knows, but many people swear that some of Obasanjo’s men are in Buhari’s cabinet, including Shehu Garba, Buhari’s special aide on Publicity and image making.
