Nigeria's Politician Of The Day: Pa Olusegun Obasanjo The ''Safety First'' Godfather.

 

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Country: NIGERIA: 

GENERAL OLUSEGUN OBASANJO- Ex-President 

D.O.B  Sometime in 1937, Not sure of the real day or month. Born in Abeokuta, south-west Nigeria.

FEMALE SPEC: Married Women...(na joke i dey oh....) but rumour has it. *Tongue out*

From 1958-1995 His career rose up like one born with a golden spoon until he was imprisoned like Joseph in the Holy Books...Pause. In 1995 He Was Tried for plotting coup against military leader General Sani Abacha and sentenced to life in prison. This was later commuted to 15 years after pressure from friends abroad, including South Africa's Nelson Mandela, former US President Jimmy Carter and former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

1998: Released from prison after Abacha's death and returns to politics. Opinions differ on why Obasanjo decided to run for president so soon after coming out of jail. His critics saw him as a pawn of the military elite - previous military rulers visited Obasanjo as he was considering running, and supported his campaign. His supporters consider him to be independent-minded. Obasanjo himself claimed to have "found God" while in prison, which gave him the strength to run for the country again. He was reported to have said that his mission was to restore Nigeria and defeat separatism.

The former president said God made him do three things while he was an inmate at Yola Prison.

“One, God made me to build a church,” Mr. Obasanjo said.

“It’s very unusual, I asked the authorities for land, they were reluctant, but eventually they gave me land and immediately we started getting donations.

“It was started before I left Yola. Wherever you are, you can still be useful to the work of God.”

Mr. Obasanjo said he also got approval from prison authorities to farm while in detention and he cultivated “enough beans to feed all the inmates and warders.”

When he was transferred to the Kirikiri Prison in Lagos, Mr. Obasanjo said he became the prison pastor and won several souls for God.

He opined that his love for God has been the secret of his existence, considering the fact that he had tapped the grace in the blood of the Eastern side of Nigeria of which he would rather love it to be an open secret as it already is.

Why divaviva111.com chose him as our politician of the day? Read below the reasons.

 

“So I called Baba Ali one day and said, ‘You are not coming to fellowship, I want you to be coming to the fellowship.’ And he said, ‘Baba, don’t worry me, don’t worry me at all because God can never forgive me. I have killed so many people in my life, I have drunk the blood of so many people, I have eaten the flesh of so many people and God will never forgive me, so don’t waste your time about me.'”

Mr. Obasanjo said he left Baba Ali for a while, and then returned later to continue his evangelism.

“I went back and said, ‘Baba Ali, you know all you said that you are a murderer, whether you killed only one person or a thousand people, you are a murderer; but you have forgotten that Moses was a murderer but God used him to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt? Abeg was Moses ever a murderer? haba baba! He killed to save a life na... well, that's by the way.

“David was a murderer but God called him a man after my heart.

“By the time I was leaving the prison, I told Baba Ali that if he was able to make it and he would like to go to Bible school, I would send him to Bible school.”

Baba Ali was released from prison two years after Mr. Obasanjo, the former president said, by which time he had been elected Nigeria’s president.

“It took him two years to get through to me, when he got to me, I reminded him of our agreement and he said he was ready to go to the Bible school.

“So I sent him to the seminary, Baba Ali spent two years in the seminary. Today, he is a pastor of a Baptist Church. What is more? Baba Ali’s junior brother took after him and has also become a pastor.”

 IN all he tries to paint himself...He is still regarded as the father of all troubles but only  hated by a few.

Don't miss out on tomorrow's politician of the day...JAMES IBORI,  A THIEF BUT WITH A ROBIN HOOD HEART...A MUST READ.