Jonathan has grand plan to scuttle democracy Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of having a grand plan to scuttle democracy based on the postponement of the general elections announced by the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, last Saturday.
Obasanjo said this on Saturday at his Hilltop presidential residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, in an interview with newsmen.
The ex-President said he broke his promise not to talk till after the elections because the elections were postponed.
Obasanjo, who just returned from a trip to New Delhi, Rabat, Nairobi, Munich and London, said the incumbent president might become another Laurent Gbagbo, the former president of Cote dlvoire, who kept on shifting election dates until he believed the odds were in his favour.
Gbagbo lost the presidential election in 2010, refused to handover to the winner and was finally disgraced out of office in April 2011, after he had plunged the country into chaos.
Obasanjo noted that Jega must have been boxed to a corner by the powers that be before making the announcement postponing the polls, stating that insecurity in the North-East of the country could not be enough reason for such postponement.
He said Jonathan, as Commander -in-Chief of the Armed Forces, must provide adequate security for the citizens.
He said, I was away because I had a number of assignments abroad which took me to Morocco, Munich, Nairobi, London and New Delhi. Exactly a week today, when we were in Munich for what they called Munich security conferences annual event; and all the people, who are in security community normally, you found them there.
For this year, the Vice- President of America was there, the Secretary of State, John Kerry, was there, the Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany was there, President of Ukraine was there and many others.
I was there with Koffie Annan; our side was to talk about peace and security in Africa. I was to handle the African perspective while Koffie Annan was to look at it from the global perspective.
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Jonathan has grand plan to scuttle democracy Obasanjo