Below is the transcript of the statements of Oba of Lagos today. He bared his mind on Nigeria's former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
OBA OF LAGOS, RILWAN AKIOLU I ON CHIEF OLUSEGUN
OBASANJO DURING PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S VISIT TO HIS PALACE, JANUARY 8, 2015
“…Lagos people are suffering, the suffering was caused by
Obasanjo, from Federal Secretariat to Federal Houses and that was why we were
very bitter with Obanikoro when he went with the Army to go and ransack a
purely traditional place and the place belongs to the palace.
As a father I have forgiven him and he has repented.
Bola Tinubu and Obanikoro are friends. They both have their
good and bad sides. It is Bola Tinubu who saved the Yoruba race and Lagos from
the devil Obasanjo.
Honestly, let us be frank with ourselves, I can never, never,
over my dead body go near former President Obasanjo. I know him. If there is
corruption, it is the responsibility of all of us. Where is the report of
Halliburton? What is the complicity in the killing of Chief Bola Ige? What did
Adenuga do that EFCC were running after him? Money was taken and he, Obasanjo
used people’s money to build what he built in Abeokuta. Obasanjo should come
and account for these monies for us. You have a duty to investigate all these
things.
What will be will be. To me you are a very good person. I
don’t hide my feelings.
I went to Panti to rescue Ogunlewe; it was Obasanjo that said
they should not release him. He was using Bode George and others at that time.
Didn’t I tell you, Bode? See what happened to you! All will
be well with us.
Mr. President, God knows your intention for this country.
People call me rubber stamp of Tinubu. If not because there is Lagos, there is
no Yoruba. That is why I told him, all this Kurukere (hobnobbing) with
Obasanjo, be careful. Me I’ve told you my own oh.
Jonathan, God will not abandon you oh. Obasanjo can never be
a friend to any of my Obas and Chiefs because I know him. I will go and look
for The Nation newspaper; they have said he is not a Yoruba man. We will
publish it. I am not fighting him because of you oh. In fact, you did one thing
and said that he has helped you before. That’s why you reserved it.
There was one day on television when he was saying
corruption, corruption and I was happy with the reply you gave Mr. President.
You said corruption and insecurity, those who are saying
corruption are the fathers of corruption. Well everything is in the hands of
God. Nigeria will not break…
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