by Damilola Jagun

Buruji Kashamu has again, rubbished Olusegun Obasanjo’s newly released autobiography, ‘My Watch’.

The Chairman of the Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, Kahsamu, has described former President’s book as a literature “filled with lies”.

Kashamu had initially gone to court to prevent Obasanjo from releasing the book, but he went ahead to release the book, in spite of the court injunction.

At a press conference on Monday, December 15, in Lagos, Kashamu stated that everything written in his book “is worthless and cheap blackmail”, adding that if Obasanjo truly loves Nigeria, he would not pen many of the text in the book.

He said: “If Chief Obasanjo likes, let him continue to disobey court orders and write tens of thousands of such books, it does not matter and cannot change anything. All that he has written in his book is worthless and cheap blackmail. If he is truly a father figure as he wants the whole world to believe, he would not publish such crap and gleefully present it to the public.”

“If he truly loves Nigeria as he is wont to claim, he would not want to pull down the roof over the whole house just because he wants to continue to be relevant in the scheme of things. This Obasanjo does not love Nigeria. He wants to destroy it, just because he no longer calls the shots. He loves himself and himself alone.”

Furthermore, Kashamu added that Obasanjo was an hypocrite to criticiss President Goodluck Jonathan, when he is also known for disobeying court orders and encouraging impunity in his time as President.

He said: “Chief Obasanjo’s conduct in and out of office does not support his claim of being a law-abiding citizen. It is on record that while in office as a democratically elected President, he disobeyed court judgments, even those of the Supreme Court, with reckless abandon.”

“Apart from his disregard for many of the apex court’s decisions in respect of his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, he stubbornly withheld the allocations due to local governments in Lagos State until he left office in spite of a Supreme Court judgement ordering his government to release the funds. Then, there was his interpretation of the apex court’s verdict on Onshore/Offshore Dichotomy suit, among others”.

“Besides, there were various types of political corruption and electoral heist, culminating in a deluge of electoral petitions, the upturning of many contrived victories and plots. All these now belong in the Nigeria of yesteryears, not today’s,” Kashamu added.