FELLOW L-ERS,

NIGERIA HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF DEBATE AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE PAST 15
YEARS OR SO, ON ITS MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND HOW IT SYSTEMATICALLY ROBBED-OFF
THE NIGERIAN POPULACE.
ON SATURDAY THE 29TH OF MAY 1999 AT EXACTLY 11:11am NIGERIAN TIME GENERAL
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO WAS SWORN-IN AS NIGERIA'S DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED
PRESIDENT.GEN.OLUSEGUN OBASANJO WHO WILLFULLY RETURNED NIGERIA TO CIVILIAN
RULE SOME 20YEARS AGO( AS A MILITARY HEAD OF STATE THEN)A RETIRED SOLDIER
AND A MUCH RESPECTED ELDER AND FARMER, OBASANJO IS NIGERIA'S HOPE INTO THE
FUTURE.
THE CITIZENS OF AFRICA'S MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY EXPECT OBASANJO NOT ONLY TO
DELIVER BUT RECOVER ALL THE ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH OF IT'S MILITARY LEADERSHIP
AND RESTORE HOPE AND CONFIDENCE OF THE WORLD TO NIGERIA AND NIGERIANS. WILL
HE DELIVER ? AND HOW SOON ? IS THE QUESTION.
WHILE SPEAKING TO HIS FELLOW COUNTRY MEN AND INDEED THE WORLD AT THE EAGLE
SQUARE IN ABUJA(NOW PRESIDENT OBASANJO)PROMISED THE WORLD THAT HE WOULD
HANDLE THE MANTLE OF POWER TO THE DESIRE OF HIS ELECTORATE, HE QUICKLY ADDED
THAT WIPING OUT WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION AND BRING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT TO NIGERIA
WILL NOT BE AN EASY TASK, HOWEVER HE IS PREPARED FOR THE UPHILL BATTLE.
IT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO NOTE THAT WHEN OBASANJO WAS HANDING OVER POWER
SOME 20YEARS AGO, THE PARADE COMMANDER THEN LT.COL. ABUBAKAR IS NOW HEAD OF
STATE HANDING OVER POWER TO ELECTED PRESIDENT OBASANJO( CO-INCIDENCE OR
DESIGN?)
GEN. ABUBAKAR, MUCH AS HE IS RESPECTED BY THE WORLD FOR HAVING LED NIGERIA
THROUGH A SUCCESFUL TRANSITION, NIGERIANS STILL POINT A FINGER AT HIM FOR
NOT BRINGING THE ABACHA CLAN TO BOOK PARTICULARLY ABACHA'S KILLING AGENTS.
WILL OBASANJO PROSECUTE THEM?

NIGERIA AND NIGERIANS TAKE NOTE FOR AFRICA AND THE WORLD IS WATCHING YOU
WITH KEEN INTEREST!

WISHING YOU WELL IN YOUR NEW FOUND DEMOCRACY.

HARONA DRAMMEH FROM NIGERIA.


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