Danjuma should leave
Nigerians alone
By Kelvin Adamu
Sunday,
March 2, 2008
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I read with utmost disgust the utterances of General T.Y.
Danjuma (rtd) in one of the national newspapers, and as a
security personnel, one is extremely disturbed that a man
of his calibre could stoop so low to gush out what the newspaper
published.
First, I would want to be focused unlike TY as he is popularly
called, and I want to disabuse the mind of Nigerians on his
tirade on the former President Olusegun Obaanjo, whom he said
was neither fit to be a leader nor the president of a country
by describing OBJ as a very "ungrateful, unreliable and
vindictive" human being.
The issue here is that, there is nothing new about OBJ that
Nigerians do not know. What is disturbing this writer and
many others is the way TY has taken this personal quarrel
to the market square.
I am sure OBJ has many pieces of information about TY that
many of us are not disposed to and it will be catastrophic
should OBJ unleash the same type of tirade on TY on the pages
of the newspapers.
His attitude has further confirmed that Nigeria is in dire
need of genuine and selfless leaders. At what point did Takun-born
General discover all these negative attributes, for OBJ was
Danjuma’s comrade in the army for years and they served
together, and had the opportunity to rule this country when
he was the Chief of Army Staff under OBJ. If that closeness
did not reveal these negative attributes that he is feeding
the nation with, one will be fair to query Danjuma’s
psychology and assessment.
One also wonders how he has been accessing all the junior
officers that have worked under him. General Danjuma is free
to return OBJ to prison as he boasted, but he has to apologise
to foresighted Nigerians who had foreseen this disaster called
Obasanajo, even before he (Danjuma) myopically noticed it.
Was he not the same spent general who told Nigerians in 1999
that should Obasanjo fail to grasp the presidency, he (Danjuma)
would pack his belongings and check out voluntarily on exile?
What this tells us is that Danjuma sold us (Nigerians) a dummy
in the person of OBJ for his selfish interest, and together
both of them wasted eight purposeful years within which this
nation would have achieved greater height in army arrears
of development.
If the General must be told the simple truth, his tirade can
simply be described as the proverbial sour grape. His annoyance
that led to this malicious and unsolicited revelation are
that Obasanjo revoked his oil licence, that he (Obasanjo)
was instrumental to the collapse of Universal Trust Bank and
some other business interests of the embittered General. OBJ
also disallowed his elegant wife from running for the Senate
as a second term Senator.
Danjuma should know that Nigerians are not too excited about
his comments and he should avail the military of his provocation.
He is a finished man and should leave us (Nigerians) alone
to lick our political wounds.
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