Bugaje contracted Obasanjo, insists that the third -term agenda was real

An former federal legislator, dr. Usman Bugaje, he rejected the denial of the former president Olusgun Obasanjo to seek a third term in office, insisting on the fact that the former leader has deployed both intimidation and financial accidents in his attempt to extend his stay to power.

Obasanjo, while talking about a dialogue on democracy hosted by the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation in Ghana last week, denied having always witnessed a third -term ambition.

He said: “I’m not a fool. If I wanted a third term, I know how to do it. And there is no Nigerian or alive dead that he would say that I called him and told him that I wanted a third term.”

But reacting during an interview on television Arise on Monday, Bugaje said that the denial was far from the truth, underlining that the members of the National Assembly at the time had a first hand knowledge of the failed agenda.

“I can confirm that Obasanjo looked for a third term. He did everything he could in his power to get a third term, but he was unable to do it,” Bugaje said.

He said that many legislators have been threatened or attracted in cash to support the constitutional amendment that would have opened the way for a third consecutive term for Obasanjo.

“The fact that he did not take a phone to call anyone is not sufficient test for not looking for a third term. All of us in the national assembly knew so undoubtedly that he worked day and night. Many of us were threatened by his agents,” he said.

Bugaje recalled that Senator Victor Lar, who was then leader of the northern Caucus in the House of Representatives, had to hide on several occasions before a critical meeting to block the third -term offer.

“Those who distributed the money is alive, those who received it are alive and those who refused it are alive. There are overwhelming evidence; this is not a question that Obasanjo can deny,” he underlined.

The third term agenda “dominated the national discourse in 2006, when a proposal to modify the 1999 Constitution to allow the presidents to serve three terms was discussed in the National Assembly.

“The bill was finally expelled following a strong opposition by groups of civil society, opposition leader and even some members of the Democratic Party of the populations in power.

The collapse of the plan eliminated the path to the general elections of 2007, which produced the deceased president Umaru Musa Yar’adua as a successor of Obasanjo.

Bugaje’s latest comments are added to the previous statements by political data, including the former president of the Senate Adolphus Wabara, who declared that he had rejected a bustarella of 250 million ₦ linked to the agenda, and former vice -president Atiku Abubakar, who attributed his alliance with his alliance as a key to frustrating the plan.

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