OLUSEGUN OBASANJO - A SAD FOOTNOTE OF HISTORY

Throughout human history there always have been individuals who stood out from the rest either for good or for bad. History is replete with distinct heroic feats of men and women of substance, and pernicious forays by villains and troglodytes. Naturally, heroes are remembered with veneration, awe and affection, and the villainous with derision and irksomeness. Most countries of the world have been blessed with more true heroes than celebrated bandits; Nigeria is an exception to the rule. It may be pertinent to recite the verses of our National Anthem to drive home a few salient points:

Arise, O compatriots

Nigeria's call obey

to serve our fatherland

with love and strength and faith.

The labour of our heroes past

shall never be in vain,

to serve with heart and might

one nation bound in freedom

Peace and unity.

O God of creation,

direct our noble cause

Guide our leaders right

Help our youth the truth to know

In love and honesty to grow

And living just and true

Great lofty heights attain

To build a nation where peace

And justice shall reign

The 5^th verse acknowledges the labour of our past heroes while the last couple of verses advocate peace and justice. A little dose of introspection wouldn’t go amiss here: Who, since the assassination of General Murtala Muhammad, could anyone confidently point to as a true hero among those in positions of authority and power in Nigeria today? Is Nigeria remotely close to the attainment of peace and fearless dispensation of justice? Is it a coincidence that Nigeria’s greatest misfortune commenced in earnest when the picaresque Obasanjo took over from the venerated Murtala Muhammad, and exacerbated with his fraudulent military-civilian handover in 1979? Nigeria hasn’t recovered ever since. Olusegun Obasanjo is the worst evil that has befallen Nigeria since the Civil War!

I’m not about to invest valuable time and space in enumerating Obasanjo’s litany of treasonous misdeeds, these are well-documented by infinitely more resourceful writers than my humble self. The essentialness of this piece is to bring to focus the root cause of Nigeria’s myriad of today’s problems, and to emphasise his irrelevance to the current social and political discourse. The pomposity of his actions and words hide the unambiguous fact that he is a deeply flawed and an insecure monstrous scuzzball who parades himself as a sagacious and heroic mensch.

Simply put, Obasanjo has jumped the shark ages ago, but has relentlessly sought to bring himself back into relevance, aided and abetted by his army of sappy and gnathonic finaglers. I know of no Nigerian who deserves more than Obasanjo to spend the rest of his miserable days in prison. He is ugly on the outside and infinitely even more so on the inside; no amount of light can permeate the darkness of his heart. He is everything antithetical to all norms of decency, a vulgarian of unassailable proportions. Those that say he is immoral are a tad kind to him, but immoral he most certainly is not. He is amoral beyond human perception, and that trait has been with him all his sorry life. The sordidness of his character is encyclopaedic; he is the most self-serving, two-faced whiffler I have ever known.

Nigerians now know the true measure of this mendacious skunk called Olusegun Obasanjo because his art of reinventing himself is well and truly dated, and Nigeria and its people are much better for it. The evidence of his utmost irrelevance is growing by the hour, as we continue to rebuild our country and reshape our future. The days of his endorsed looters are just as numbered as his. The season of true muckraking is about to begin; there’ll be no hiding place for the rapists of our commonwealth, peace and stability. History shall not be kind to Obasanjo in any way, shape or form. His legacy is congested with bitterness and ill-will towards Nigeria and its people. 
Obasanjo is spent and gone. May we never see his like again.