Facts have emerged on why Ex-
President Olusegun Obasanjo have
assumed an anti-Goodluck Jonathan
stance, even as the 2015 intrigues
continue to gather steam.
A source privy to a recent meeting where
Obasanjo openly expressed his
displeasure to some close allies on how
President Jonathan has been relating with
him, said it all started when:
Obasanjo indicated his intention to resign
as the chairman of the Board of Trustees
of PDP. The situation was allegedly
handled poorly by President Jonathan and
this angered Obasanjo.
According to the source, the former
president had expected the president to
engage him in order to seek clarification
on why he was leaving the office beyond
the excuses he had advanced.
Commenting on the Obasanjo/Jonathan
grudge, the source said the former
president was shocked when about a week
after serving the notice of his intention to
resign, he received a letter from Jonathan,
accepting his resignation without either an
attempt to persuade him against it or give
personal attention to the plan.
Obasanjo was said to have described
President Jonathan's action as both
insensitive and a display of poor
understanding of the nuances of power.
"Baba had expected that given his place in
the party and especially the role he played
in the emergence of Mr Goodluck Jonathan
as President, he would have prevailed on
him not to go but stay back and help
moderate things at the highest level in the
party," the source said.
Another source told Thisday that Jonathan
just "acted naively" without knowing the
implications.
The source, who gave a rundown of
Jonathan's alleged many infractions
against Obasanjo, confirmed that the
former president is not happy with the
way the Jonathan groups were going
about his re-election bid.
According to him, Obasanjo had put a lot
at stake by brokering a one-term deal that
is now being vehemently denied, adding
that even if there was plan to seek re-
election, the brazen approach is certainly
counter-productive in the light of the
prevailing political developments in the
country.
The source recalled that apart from easing
out former governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola
of Osun State as national secretary, Bode
Mustapha, as auditor-general and former
Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni, as vice-
chairman of the PDP, South-west zone, the
PDP in Ogun State had also been taken
away from Obasanjo and handed over to
someone regarded as "unrepentantly anti-
Obasanjo", Mr. Buruji Kashamu.
Worthy of note, the source mentioned,
was that Obasanjo didn't take kindly, the
way Jonathan took his position on the
issue of insecurity, especially when the
President was reported as saying he would
not handle the issue of terrorism the
military way, alluding to Obasanjo's
invasion of Odi and Zaki Biam.
Another instance, according to the source,
was that Obasanjo sometime ago visited
one of his farms in Cross River State and
observed that the road to the farm was in
deplorable state.
"So, Baba expressed his disappointment
to the Cross River State governor on the
state of the road but the man replied and
said it was the President that had not
approved of it being a federal road.
"Right there, Baba called the president
and narrated his encounter with the
governor and told the president that he
had appealed to the governor to go ahead
with the road and that he'll be reimbursed
by the president, to which Jonathan was
said to have replied in the affirmative.
"But Baba was later shocked to hear that
the president had sent for the governor
and dressed him down for what he
considered 'reporting him to Baba'. So,
these are some of the things that people
do not know that are annoying Baba.
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