Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he
chose late Yar'Adua as his successor because the
other politicians available at that time were
corrupt. According to him, one of those who
wanted to succeed him was 'stinkingly corrupt'.
He gave his reasons during an interview with
Channels TV yesterday July 15th
"Even if you take your son as your successor,
you are not sure of what he will do when he
gets there. Don’t ever kid yourself. What do I
know about any successor? What he
presents. When he gets there, he presents it
differently. We did our best, but if you say our
best is not good enough, I will say, when it
comes to your turn, do better.
With all the people that are available for
successor, what we came up with was about
the best that we could think of at that time.
One of those who wanted to do the job came
to me and said, ‘Sir, I like your job, but I
cannot do it the way you are doing it.’ Now,
if he had told me that, should I then come
and say, ‘okay, come, let me give you the
job?’ He had told me that, ‘I like your job, but
look, the way you are doing it, I haven’t got
the stamina to do it that way.’ Then, what do
you expect me to do? Or the one that I know
that, oh!, this one, before he gets the job,
he’s stinkingly corrupt. Now will I be able to
defend myself before God and man if with
what I know I give this job or I encourage the
man to have this job?”he said
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