Obasanjo's Problems Arise From Not Doing What He Said God Told Him

By

Professor Omo Omoruyi, mni

africandemocracy@hotmail.com

 

 

          The ongoing crisis in Nigeria should be seen as part of or the by-product of the lingering political crises afflicting the country since 1993.   The lingering political issues would have been the only issues that President Obasanjo would have been dealing with since May 1999.   Why he failed to do this since 1999 has to do with the mode of his emergence.   Those who originated his emergence certainly wanted President Obasanjo’s period of one term to serve as a “bridge” within which the lingering political problems of the country would have been addressed.  It was unthinkable that “Self-succession” was anticipated. 

       Again those who engineered his emergence did not know that they were dealing with a self-opinionated despot.   They mistook the man they knew as a fellow despot in the army with a man who paid lip service to democracy.   Of course they were naïve to think that President Obasanjo would not have a mind of his own.   They were naïve to liken and compare his first reign in the 1970s with the 21st century Nigeria and the world.   They ought to have known that his first reign was based on the military (bullet) and that his second reign would be based on the people (ballot).  

       It would appear that the lingering political problems were neither addressed nor the manifestation of these political problems understood by President Obasanjo and the political class.   Maybe they thought that they would wither away.  

      What we have in Nigeria today is paralysis at all arms (executive, legislature and judiciary) and levels (federal, state and local) of government.    The solution is complete overhaul of the governmental system and not the removal of one person, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.   President Obasanjo is no different from the general political class in Nigeria today.   Removing him would not solve the nature of and character of Nigerian politics.   He too ought to have known that his decision to embark on self-succession from his record of the past three years is an abuse of the democratic process.

CHIEF OBASANJO ERRED BY IGNORING WHAT GOD TOLD HIM

      An issue today, is not the genesis of the crisis, but on the advisability of President Obasanjo going back to what God told him which he told the Nigerian people in June 1998.   One would recall that one of the things he told the Baptist Church at Abeokuta on June 20, 1998 was the mode of resolving the lingering political issues afflicting the land from 1993.   He did prophesied as to what God told him in June 1998.   Why did the President ignore this since May 1999?   This is the source of his difficulties since May 1999 to his peril and to the peril of the country.

       The solution to the Nigerian lingering political crisis did not include his becoming the President; if that were so he would have told the Nigerian people in June 1998.   The solution that God told Chief Obasanjo would have been through what he prophesied to in June 1998 as soon as he was released from Abacha’s Gulag.   In that prophesy that I called the Sermon on Olumo Rock, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo told the world and the Nigerian people through the faithful in the Baptist Church at Abeokuta that God told him the mode of resolving the lingering political problems afflicting the country.   One cannot pick and choose God’s words.   It ought to have been obvious to President Obasanjo that he ignored what he said God told him in Abacha’s Gulag BEFORE June 1998 and decided to stick what man told him AFTER June 1998.    This is disobedience of the highest order.   Another disobedience was his decision to embark on the “self-succession fasting” in the tradition of the hypocrites in the Bible.   His decision to announce his self-succession declaration was one of the most fraudulent acts ever inflicted on the Nigerian people.

      He confessed that God used his incarceration in Abacha’s Gulag as the opportunity God gave him to appreciate the nature of the crisis over June 12 that its non-resolution “forebodes ill for the destiny of Nigeria”.   This was not all.

      God also told Chief Obasanjo that

              “It is never too late for patriotic men and women

             of goodwill in this country to get together

             and dialogue to find generally acceptable

              to the unnecessary problems”.

 

         For those who are wondering as to what I am referring to, let me call readers’ attention to what he told the Baptist Church on June 20, 1998 immediately he was released from Abacha’s Gulag.    In his words:

                    Once again, as God had given me the opportunity

                   (meaning his stay in Abacha’s Gulag and his release)

                   I will comment on the elections of June  12, 1993.

 

RESOLUTION OF JUNE 12 AND FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY

       On the relationship between the non-resolution of the lingering crisis over the June 12 and the foundation of democracy, the same God told Chief Obasanjo in Abacha’s Gulag as he prophesied on June 20, 1998 at the Baptist Church Abeokuta in the following words:

      Without resolving the events of June 12,

      we may not have a firm and solid foundation

      to erect the structure of democracy on a lasting basis

      apart from the implication for the unity

      and stability of the country”.

 

 FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND BENIGN NEGLECT TO GOD’S WORD

      Once Chief Obasanjo was tempted with the forbidden apple later; this same tempter assured him that he would be made to take over from General Abdulsalami Abubakar under conditions that included benign neglect to what God told him in Abacha’s Gulag.   Was this not why he had since then turned a deaf ear to what he told the world and the Nigerian people on June 20, 1998 in his Sermon?   There can be no other explanation why he should do everything to undermine what Nigerians died for in June 1993.       

       What is bothering me today is the way Christian organizations are reacting to the governmental paralysis caused by President Obasanjo.   I am not blaming the National Assembly not because the members are with no fault of their own as individuals and as an institution.   I am blaming President Obasanjo not because I believe in what the National Assembly members are doing.   On whether the alleged breaches rise up to the level of impeachable offences is a moot question, for after all impeachment is a political action.   Textbook and practice would tell you that what is an impeachable offence is what the specified majority calls an impeachable offence.   It is a legal issue.    I am blaming President Obasanjo because by his act of omission, commission or indiscretion, he brought this on himself and inflicted on the country what amounts to governmental paralysis.  

         The cause of the paralysis can be traced to the benign neglect to what God told Chief Obasanjo as the mode of resolving the crisis in the country, which is “the get together of patriotic men and women of goodwill”.   This is what Nigerians of all political persuasions call the Sovereign National Conference (SNC).   This was God told Obasanjo before June 1998 and he told Nigerians so on June 20, 1998 and after May 1999 he had been doing everything to work against what he prophesied in June 1998.

      . I am not going to discuss the merit of the case against him by the National Assembly.    He has no business being the President just to stay in office without resolving the lingering political problems.   Those problems are worse today than when he took office.  More deaths, more inter-ethnic violence, more religious violence, more poverty, more unemployment, and more corruption you name it.

The solution to the lingering political crisis in which the governmental paralysis is part can only be solved if Nigeria would undertake fundamental restructuring through a Sovereign National Conference.   Simple.