By Seun Opejobi
Erstwhile Vice
President, Atiku Abubakar has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo
attempted to become a lifetime President and not third term.
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| Chirf Olusegun Obasanjo, right, and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar |
Speaking with
Zero Tolerance, a magazine published by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, the former Vice President alleged that Obasanjo tried to
amend the constitution to make way for his agenda.
Abubakar
insisted that his former principal under the guise of attempting to amend the
constitution carefully removed the aspect of tenure limitation but he kicked
against it.
He said, “My
offence was that I disagreed with him on the amendment of the constitution to
remove tenure/term limits or what was popularly called the ‘third term agenda’.
“In fact, he
sent the then Attorney-General and Prof. Jerry Gana to my office to bring the
draft amendments to the constitution. After going through (them), I found out
that tenure limits had been removed. In other words, he could be President for
life.
“I then asked
them that ‘if I send you to the President, can you deliver this message?’ They
said yes. I said ‘go and tell him I will not support it and (I) will fight
it’.”
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Source: Daily Post
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