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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has raised the alarm that the Muhammadu Buhari- led administration has put his name on its security watchlist.
Obasanjo claimed security agencies are plotting to arrest and put him in detention.
The former president made these allegations in a statement signed by his media aide , Kehinde Akinyemi , on Friday in Abeokuta.
Obasanjo noted that the present administration wanted to blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of Nigerians to a better life.
The statement read in part : “Since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo declared in his State - of- the - Nation special statement on January 23 , 2018 , the desperation to frustrate , intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living continued unabated and has even taken a bizarre dimension.
“ Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’ s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed.
“ According to these informants, many of who are in the top echelon of the nation ’ s security management and close to the corridors of power , the operatives are daily perfecting how to curtail the personal liberties of the former President and hang a crime on him.
“ Ordinarily, we would not have dignified these reports with a response but for the fact that many of these informants are not known for flippant and frivolous talks.
“ This government has demonstrably exhibited apathy, and in some cases , encouraged by its conduct , daily loss of lives and property in many states of the country , the office cannot be indifferent.
We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same Government they serve.
“ There is a groundswell of our nationals that live in fear that they could be hounded, harassed , maimed or even killed as the battle for 2019 takes this worrisome dimension.
“… The content of the alleged beastly designs , it was learnt are two - fold for now . One, to seize his International Passport and clamp him into detention indefinitely, in order to prevent him from further expressing angst on the pervasive mediocrity in the quality of governance , economic management and in the protection of lives and property by the government .
“ But, since that could expose the government to a swath of international condemnation , embarrassment and outrage , it is said that another plot being hatched is to cause the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to re - open investigation into the activities of Chief Obasanjo ’s administration using false witnesses and documents.”
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