Facts have emerged on why Ex-President
Olusegun Obasanjo have assumed an anti-
Goodluck Jonathan stance, even as the 2015
intrigues continue to gather steam.
A source privy to a recent meeting where
Obasanjo openly expressed his displeasure to
some close allies on how President Jonathan
has been relating with him, said it all started
when:
Obasanjo indicated his intention to resign as
the chairman of the Board of Trustees of PDP.
The situation was allegedly handled poorly by
President Jonathan and this angered Obasanjo.
According to the source, the former president
had expected the president to engage him in
order to seek clarification on why he was
leaving the office beyond the excuses he had
advanced.
Commenting on the Obasanjo/Jonathan
grudge, the source said the former president
was shocked when about a week after serving
the notice of his intention to resign, he
received a letter from Jonathan, accepting his
resignation without either an attempt to
persuade him against it or give personal
attention to the plan.
Obasanjo was said to have described President
Jonathan's action as both insensitive and a
display of poor understanding of the nuances
of power.
"Baba had expected that given his place in the
party and especially the role he played in the
emergence of Mr Goodluck Jonathan as
President, he would have prevailed on him not
to go but stay back and help moderate things
at the highest level in the party," the source
said.
Another source told Thisday that Jonathan just
"acted naively" without knowing the
implications.
The source, who gave a rundown of
Jonathan's alleged many infractions against
Obasanjo, confirmed that the former president
is not happy with the way the Jonathan
groups were going about his re-election bid.
According to him, Obasanjo had put a lot at
stake by brokering a one-term deal that is now
being vehemently denied, adding that even if
there was plan to seek re-election, the brazen
approach is certainly counter-productive in the
light of the prevailing political developments in
the country.
The source recalled that apart from easing out
former governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun
State as national secretary, Bode Mustapha,
as auditor-general and former Ekiti State
governor, Segun Oni, as vice-chairman of the
PDP, South-west zone, the PDP in Ogun State
had also been taken away from Obasanjo and
handed over to someone regarded as
"unrepentantly anti-Obasanjo", Mr. Buruji
Kashamu.
Worthy of note, the source mentioned, was
that Obasanjo didn't take kindly, the way
Jonathan took his position on the issue of
insecurity, especially when the President was
reported as saying he would not handle the
issue of terrorism the military way, alluding to
Obasanjo's invasion of Odi and Zaki Biam.
Another instance, according to the source, was
that Obasanjo sometime ago visited one of his
farms in Cross River State and observed that
the road to the farm was in deplorable state.
"So, Baba expressed his disappointment to the
Cross River State governor on the state of the
road but the man replied and said it was the
President that had not approved of it being a
federal road.
"Right there, Baba called the president and
narrated his encounter with the governor and
told the president that he had appealed to the
governor to go ahead with the road and that
he'll be reimbursed by the president, to which
Jonathan was said to have replied in the
affirmative.
"But Baba was later shocked to hear that the
president had sent for the governor and
dressed him down for what he considered
'reporting him to Baba'. So, these are some of
the things that people do not know that are
annoying Baba. If not for these infractions, the
source said, "Baba was not and never would
have been against the president because of
the role he played in his emergence. It is
depressing for Baba."
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