Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that he intentionally allowed himself to be arrested by the Sani Abacha regime.
According to LEADERSHIP, Obasanjo made the disclosure via his newest controversial memoir, ‘My Watch’. According to his narrative, Obasanjo had been meeting with some leading politicians and non-politicians in every part of the country on the need to free the country from the jackboot of Abacha whom he said, “was so much below average as an officer that no serious attention was paid to him until he was made to announce the coup.
”I was not in doubt that Abacha would attempt to silence me. This was clear from his apparent ambition for life presidency of Nigeria in insatiable appetite for corruption; his looting directly from the Central Bank; his need to silence everyone that could oppose him in any form; his actions towards my close friends and associates and his close surveillance of me by his security both within and outside Nigeria.”
Obasanjo said he had numerous opportunities to escape and accept an offer of political asylum by the United States.
