Mujeeb Akindoyin
Former Vice-President and African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has claimed that he saved the life of former President Olusegun Obasanjo while both men were in prison by exposing an alleged plan to administer a fatal injection to him.
Atiku made the claim in an interview, alleging that he received information about the purported plan and warned Obasanjo against accepting the injection.
The ADC presidential candidate said the alleged method had previously been used against the late General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, who died in prison in 1997.
“I saved Obasanjo’s life in prison by leaking information about an impending injection that could have killed him. They did the same to Yar’Adua, and when I learnt they planned to do it to him, I warned him not to allow the injection,” Atiku said.
Obasanjo and Atiku both spent time in prison during the military era before returning to frontline politics after Nigeria’s transition to democracy in 1999.
Obasanjo was imprisoned by the military government under the late General Sani Abacha after being convicted of an alleged coup plot in 1995. He was released in 1998 following Abacha’s death.
Atiku, who later served as Obasanjo’s vice-president between 1999 and 2007, said their relationship subsequently deteriorated over political differences, particularly his opposition to Obasanjo’s bid for a third presidential term.
According to him, Obasanjo’s alleged hostility towards him was linked to his resistance to the third-term agenda.
“Today, he wants the world to hate me because I opposed his third-term ambition,” Atiku added.
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