President Goodluck Jonathan,
yesterday, described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s attacks on him as the
consequence of his failure to surrender his administration to the former
leader.
Responding to the tirades of the
former president last week, President Jonathan said Obasanjo was so bent on
controlling his protégées that he would not mind installing the devil in power
so long as he can control him.
Meanwhile, it was learned at the
weekend that the Presidency and the Peoples Democracy Party, PDP, have decided
to pull back from earlier plans to sanction Obasanjo over his perceived
anti-party activities. Besides, there were indications that Obasanjo’s support
among some northern governors, who deferred to him in the past, may be waning.
One serving northern governor in the PDP known as an Obasanjo associate,
weekend, flayed the former president for crossing the line in his attacks on
the president and party.
Addressing journalists,
yesterday, in Abuja, Director, Media and Publicity of PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode stressed that soon after Jonathan won the
2011 elections, the former president tried everything possible to control and
teleguide him, adding that he asked the President to do a number of things that
were simply wrong and unacceptable to a government with plans for the people.
Why Obasanjo is attacking
Jonathan
He said: “After Jonathan came to power, Obasanjo not only tried to control and teleguide him, but he also asked him to do a number of things that were simply wrong and unacceptable. It is for President Goodluck Jonathan himself to divulge those things and I am sure that he will do so at the appropriate time.
“Needless to say President
Jonathan refused to be teleguided and told what to do though at all times he
showed Obasanjo maximum respect and accorded him all the privileges, access and
courtesies that are due to a former Head of State and a father and mentor. This
continued to be the case even after Obasanjo consistently attempted to
undermine his government and ridicule his efforts.
“Yet President Obasanjo could
not be appeased and was not satisfied. As far as he was concerned, he must
either control Jonathan or Jonathan had to go. That is why he decided to
secretly support the APC and became their ‘navigator in chief’. He was
determined to pull the whole house down rather than allow Jonathan to return to
power. This is simply because he believes that if he cannot control
someone, that person must be destroyed. Control and domination is an
obsession for Obasanjo. That is the bottom line. He is prepared to put
even the devil in power provided he can control him,” Fani-Kayode, who also
served President Obasanjo as a senior special assistant (public communication)
and later Aviation Minister said.
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