Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on
Saturday alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan had a grand plan to
scuttle the coming elections for fear that if General Muhammadu
Buhari(retd) of All Progressives Congress succeeds him, Buhari would
send him to jail.
He said this at his Hilltop presidential
residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State while talking with journalists. He
said he broke his promise not to talk till after the elections because
the elections were postponed.
Obasanjo spoke just as Nobel laureate
and playwright, Prof. Wole Soyinka, warned President Goodluck Jonathan
not to use security agencies to scuttle the current democratic
dispensation.
Obasanjo, who just returned from foreign
trips, said, “I believe the President’s fear is particularly motivated
by whom he sees as his likely successor, that is, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
I believe people would have been telling him that Buhari is a hard man;
he will fight corruption and he (Jonathan) may end up in jail if not in
the grave. I think people would have told him that sort of thing and he
is not the only one afraid of Buhari.”
