Forget ex-president’s Olusegun Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My
Watch’, former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba is set to write
his own book to set the record straight.
According to Osoba, the three-part autobiography of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, is a distortion of history.
He disclosed this while addressing journalists in Lagos on Monday at
the public presentation of a book, titled, “Watching the Watcher: A book
of remembrance of the Obasanjo years,” – a rejoinder to Obasanjo’s
book, which was authored by the Publicity Secretary of the Afenifere,
Yinka Odumakin.
Osoba said though he had not read Obasanjo’s book, he was appalled by
the aspect of the book where Obasanjo said he did not initiate the
relationship between the disbanded Alliance for Democracy and the
Peoples Democratic Party.
He said he recalled how Obasanjo approached the AD governors
“virtually on his knees, begging us to come and rescue him and support
his second term agenda.”
He said that contrary to Obasanjo’s claim that his vice, Atiku
Abubakar, was at the forefront of the relationship with Afenifere,
Obasanjo was always flying down at the shortest notice from Abuja to
meet with the late leader of the Afenifere, Abraham Adesanya, who always
chose the venue of their meetings.
Hear him:
“I haven’t read the book but I am of the profession of the watchdog.
And when you have somebody watching the watcher, who thought he could be
all-in-all in Nigeria… That was why I was interested in coming to
honour Yinka. The watcher wrote something important in his book, which
Wole Soyinka has given his own verdict about.
“I am going to give my own verdict in my own book. An aspect of it
was the mention of 2003, where Gen. Obasanjo denied the relationship
between the AD and the PDP. He said it was the idea of the Vice
President, the Turaki of Adamawa, Atiku Abubakar. I think the story is
far from the fact. Well, we are age mate. So, I can say that it is far
from the truth.”