Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday replied the Awujale of
Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, on the monarch’s assertions of him in his
autobiography “Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S. K.
Adetona, Ogbagba II,” published in 2010.
Obasanjo said Oba Adetona’s assertions of him are “tissues of lies and untruth.”
In the autobiography, the monarch had accused Obasanjo of using the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to blackmail and extort
during his tenure as president of the country.
The ex – President in a statement issued from his Presidential
Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and made available to The
Nation, said it was the then Vice-Chancellor of Bells University, Prof.
Julius Okogie, who invited billionaire businessman, Chief Mike Adenuga,
to contribute to a project at the institution but didn’t inform him
about it until Adenuga pulled out of the arrangement.
Obasanjo noted that Adenuga did not need to send anything to satisfy
him or establish his innocence but only needed to satisfy the EFCC.
The ex- President said with the insistence of Adenuga to send
documents to him, the Awujale was insinuating that he was the one to be
satisfied and not the EFCC.
Obasanjo said, “The extract from your Autobiography “Awujale: The
Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S. K. Adetola, Ogbagba II,” published by
Mosuro Publishers 2010, pp. 187-195, which I attached to this letter
was presented to me for my attention.
“Your assertion in the publication was a tissue of lies and untruth.
Olopade is one of my best friends and yes, I would be at his birthday
celebration but I would not have invited Mike, your cousin, to meet me
anywhere other than my office or official residence as President of
Nigeria. Kabiyesi, do you think I would set the press up to capture me
and Mike in a photograph for the newspapers? That would be puerile of
me as President. Of course, I could not say that Mike could not do
that. That you think that I, as President of Nigeria, would descend to
such depravity makes me think of you much less than I thought of you,
until now.”
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