There’s More On the Way On Mr. Obasanjo From Mr. Atiku

The statement attributed to Mr. Abubakar Atiku in some Nigerian newspapers today that Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo is experiencing “disengagement trauma” may not be the last damnable thing that he will have to say about the latter in the next few weeks following their stand-down as vice president and president respectively May 29. Mr. Atiku, who is currently visiting Washington, DC in a private capacity, has disclosed to some people that he is privy to a dossier of damaging information on Mr. Obasanjo.

This is part of their continuing feud. According to one of the individuals who has been meeting with him during his stay here in Washington, DC, Mr. Atiku believes that the information that he has on Mr. Obasanjo is so damaging that aspects if not all of them could land Mr. Obasanjo in jail. He disclosed to this individual who is also related to his running mate in the last presidential election that he is simply waiting for Mr. Obasanjo’s hand over May 29 before he will begin to release the dossier in a systematic manner.

The specifics of the contents of the dossier are still unknown. So also are the logistics and conduit through which he will release whatever is contained in the said dossier. But if one were to go by the trend and the pattern of events in Nigeria’s judiciary, the enormity of the dossier’s contents may not necessarily earn Mr. Obasanjo even a night in jail. The most likely sanction against him will come by way of public opprobrium. Much of the land is already abuzz over the reckless statements that he made over the last week. The one that he made that Mr. Bola Ige, who he appointed attorney general in his first term, may have been assassinated by drug barons drew the immediate ire of Mr. Ige’s daughter, who proclaimed that his late father’s ghost is haunting Mr. Obasanjo. The suspicion in some quarters in Nigeria is that Obasanjo may have been involved in Mr. Ige’s assassination.

People are predicting that Mr. Obasanjo has very difficult years ahead of him because of the enormity of the misrule he inflicted on Nigeria in the last eight years. The fact that he capped that misrule with the most outrageous election rigging in Nigeria’s history wouldn’t make the situation any better for him.