Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan was
under pressure by his Ijaw kinsmen in the Niger Delta to compel the
anti-graft agencies to initiate corruption charges against former
President Olusegun Obasanjo.
It was learnt that the Ijaw
leaders were of the opinion that the former president was becoming
over-bearing and asked President Jonathan to tame him and other leaders
of the opposition groups ahead of the 2015 general elections.
Findings
showed that Jonathan was being prompted to probe the Obasanjo
administration from 1999 to 2007 in order to whittle down the influence
of the former head of state.
It was learnt that President
Jonathan was asked to refrain from engaging in any verbal war with
Obasanjo, but should direct the antigraft agencies to dust up some
reports on his administration and initiate his trial for corrupt
practices while in office.
The action, according to Jonathan’s
kinsmen, should be designed o discredit the former president and
dissuade him from galvanising the opposition towards Jonathan’s
re-election.
Investigation further revealed that Jonathan was
also advised to devise means of taming the leaders of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), especially former Head of State, Gen.
Mohammed Buhari (rtd.) and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu.
Already, it was learnt yesterday that this position had
been communicated to the President by a prominent Ijaw leader (name
withheld).
It was also learnt that the position of Jonathan’s
kinsmen stemmed from the interim review of the 18-page letter written to
him by the former president, in which the former head of state reviewed
the state of the nation.
Investigations revealed that Jonathan’s
kinsmen were not comfortable with the content of the letter, which they
considered as “damaging.”
To this end, it was learnt that series
of meetings of the various Ijaw groups had been slated for this week to
formally dissect the letter and respond appropriately. Other Ijaw
groups, especially Izon-Ikemi and Oporoza House, founded and funded by
two prominent ex-militant commanders, Chief Tom Ateke and Chief
Government Ekpemukpolo, alias Tompolo, respectively, are scheduled to
meet this week to deliberate on the content of Obasanjo’s letter.
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