President Jonathan Humilated As Obasanjo Avoids Meeting Him In Abeokuta

President Goodluck Jonathan did not succeed in his bid to meet former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday as the former President sneaked out from his palatial building in Abeokuta, immediately Jonathan arrived the state capital.

Elombah.com had reported this morning that Nigeria’s President will take the opportunity of his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital, and hometown of former President Olusegun Obasanjo today to pay a visit to his former political benefactor whom has been bandying words with him lately in the media.

According to reports, Jonathan would have used the opportunity of the meeting to appeal to Obasanjo to have a rethink on his position over his re-election in February.

But Obasanjo who was driven out in his black jeep and one security hilux van, shunned his main entrance and made use of his private gate through which he sneaked out.

A Vanguard correspondent who was at Obasanjo’s house to cover the expected meeting between the two country leaders reported that, some security personnel who had been detailed at the former President house suddenly disappeared.

Source close to Obasanjo’s Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta had earlier confided in our correspondent said that President Jonathan was not in the Obasanjo itinerary for the day.

He also hinted that, Obasanjo jetted out around 2: 59p.m few minutes after the helicopter that flew the President to the state touched the ground.

Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) who had earlier besieged the Obasanjo’s Hilltop mansion as early as 6a.m in anticipation of president Jonathan’s arrival also left the place at exactly 3: 10p.m when it became obvious that Jonathan was not coming to Obasanjo’s house.

Jonathan however, arrived the M.K.O stadium in Abeokuta at exactly 3: 50p.m and headed straight to the state box from where he later moved out to acknowledge cheers from the crowd who had thronged the stadium venue of the campaign as early as 7: 30a.m.

The former President had last Monday said Nigeria was facing economic problems due to the failure of the present administration to plan for a rainy day.

Jonathan and Obasanjo had been engaged in some ongoing feuds, but the Owu chief’s appearance on Saturday at the church wedding ceremony of President Jonathan’s foster daughter, Inebharapu, with his retinue which included his trusted aide, Dr Andy Uba, gave the guests a pleasant jolt.

Not only was Obasanjo’s arrival cheered with a deafening applause, he was also given a standing ovation as he made his way to the VIP section where he eventually settled down calmly.

Saturday’s occasion, held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, would be the first time the duo would meet since the public presentation of My Watch last month. It would also be recalled that Obasanjo pointedly shunned President Jonathan’s declaration to contest the February 14 presidential election.

The former Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees chairman had, in addition, tacitly rebuffed the peace overtures of the party leaders, who paid him a visit at his Abeokuta residence last year.











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Posted: at 12-01-2015 09:36 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Congratulations...if i were GEJ......those leaders who spoil Nigeria will be at one place...

Posted: at 12-01-2015 09:59 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 12-01-2015 10:23 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Ok

Posted: at 13-01-2015 12:30 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

Exact;y ..   
The same OBJ just came back from Bridal or engagement ceremony  . when mass slaughtering was gooing on in Baga and several lost their lives
People rendered homeless .   while they were making merry downsouth .   Pretty shameful .   I hope people will get sense . . one of these days . 

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Posted: at 13-01-2015 12:55 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Cameroon repels Boko Haram attack, says 143 militants killed

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Yaoundé (AFP) – The Cameroonian army killed 143 Boko Haram fighters who attacked a military base in the northern town of Kolofata on Monday, in what the government said was the militants’ heaviest loss yet on its territory.

One Cameroonian soldier also lost his life in the clashes, Communications Minister and government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a statement read out on television and radio.

The toll was “the heaviest loss yet” suffered by Boko Haram on Cameroonian soil, he said, and comes at a time of fears of increased cross-border raids by the Nigeria-based group into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

The spokesman said the attack began in the early hours when “several hundred” Islamist fighters took advantage of thick fog to cross over from Nigeria and tried to storm the town’s military base, where an elite army unit is stationed.

Intense fighting erupted near the base, lasting for more than five hours before the attackers fled back towards the border, the spokesman said, adding that the army had seized a significant arsenal of heavy weaponry from the militants.

A local source said residents fled “as soon as people heard the first gunfire” in the town.

The attack on Kolofata comes after the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau vowed last week in a YouTube message to hit back at Cameroon for sending warplanes into action against the fighters in December after they seized a military camp.

Monday’s offensive was the first by Boko Haram on the town since the army’s elite Rapid Intervention Battalion was deployed to defend the area after deadly attacks in 2014.

Several people were killed in an attack on Kolofata in July and 27 people, including the wife of a deputy prime minister, were held hostage for several weeks by the Islamists.

The insurgency by Boko Haram, which is fighting to create a hardline Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria, has left more than 13,000 dead and 1.5 million displaced since 2009.

The group has seized dozens of towns and villages in northeast Nigeria in the last six months and now reportedly controls large parts of Borno state, which borders Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

Meanwhile in the Borno state town of Baga, a resident on Monday said he saw “corpses everywhere” following a major assault by the militants there last week.

“They have set up barricades in strategic locations in the town. There are corpses everywhere. The whole town smells of decomposing bodies,” Borye Kime, who fled the attack to Chad but returned briefly Monday to collect some possessions, told AFP.

Local officials have cited huge numbers of dead in the attack on the town on the shores of Lake Chad in Borno state. There was no possibility of immediately confirming the figures.

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has been fiercely criticised for his failure to beat back Boko Haram, whose territorial gains have led to fears of a total collapse of government control in the northeast.


Nigeria get up from ur slumber  and join the Cameroon government to fight this  war that ur political  ego created. While ur neighbor is there helping  u to kill these idiots u Mr President  is only  fighting  to hold strong in  to power. What a greedy  world we live in. What will profit  a man if he gain the whole world and his citizens  are killed like flies?

Posted: at 13-01-2015 03:16 AM (9 years ago) | Newbie

If only GEJ was a good man.......

*Shaking My Head*

Posted: at 13-01-2015 05:59 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

Let them kill each other

Posted: at 13-01-2015 11:12 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

Kudos to those Cameroon  soldiers who where so courageous to combat these bastard blood suckers. Nigerian army should be ashamed of themselves. 

Posted: at 13-01-2015 05:56 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

GEJ is a Failure ...he has desmantle his Party and lost dignity in the eye of able men

Posted: at 13-01-2015 07:10 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie