Obasanjo said some serving governors at that time advised him to pursue a third term agenda but declined to mention their names.
He revealed this yesterday in Lagos when he launched his memoir titled: “My Watch.” He alleged that some ex-governors believed that they had much to benefit from him and that he knew what was happening then.
He also said he had revealed a lot of other things and urged those who had contrary evidence to make such evidence public, mentioning two moments of his life which he called his highest and lowest moments.
The lowest moment, according to him, was the first coup in 1966, which he said was the beginning of the country’s crisis.
“The lowest point in my life, one of them was the coup of 1966. Nigeria was like a closely knit family, we knew no tribe or section. My best friend was an Igbo man, but I never saw him as an Igbo man, I saw him as a man I could trust and relate with. This trust among Nigerians had for themselves began to wane after the coup. The highpoint of my life was when the war ended. Nigeria became reunited and the feeling of desolation that the people had at that time calmed.
He said despite all the challenges that the country had faced, including the high level of insecurity, “God is still a Nigerian.
“When you look at what we have gone through as a country, 1964 we had an election, in 1966, a coup, then a civil war, then all was okay and we had coup after coup and then we had Abacha. Whatever situation we find ourselves, though it is not the act of God but He is seeing us through and that makes Him a Nigerian. Other countries have not experienced half of what we have experienced and today they are no longer a country,” he said.
He also said he remains an incurable optimist about Nigeria.
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