When it became obvious that President Goodluck Jonathan was not going to work within the confines of the blueprint put together by Obasanjo and started derailing badly, it also became obvious that something needed to be done.
Down the road it became clear to Obasanjo that checkmating President Jonathan was not a battle he could fight alone; he was no longer in government, all the trappings of power reside with President Jonathan. And so Obasanjo needed a kind of coalition of supposedly interested parties to ganging up and stop Jonathan.
Obasanjo miscalculated when he felt the person he needed to talk to was IBB thinking that by aligning with Babangida they could face President Jonathan and quicken the President’s fall in a question of just a few month.
Obasanjo's desire to cause President Jonathan’s downfall was uppermost in his mind when he went and sat down with IBB, and the former President gave his visit on IBB much publicity to let every Nigerian know that they have reached a pact.
If IBB had any plot at all, it was how to elbow Obasanjo out of the hold on the government and relevance in the villa and create a footing for himself, his cronies in the military and the polity. So, Obasanjo went with his heart open, not knowing that the man is the Maradona of all times, and IBB dribbled him.
Obasanjo issued a statement recently trying to engineer crisis against the presidency, saying that he was no longer electable; that it is time for him to pack and go, as well as talking about an interim government.
That was when IBB himself engineered the President’s visit through his contacts. Visiting IBB was not a product of the Presidency; rather, it was engineered through the same network for the President to visit IBB because if you are talking to IBB you are equally talking with General Abdusalami Abubakar and military apparatchik.
So, immediately after that statement from Obasanjo against the presidency, it became obvious that a counter statement should come from somebody of note, somebody who has the same or even more clout than the former President.
Shortly after the meeting with President Jonathan in Minna, IBB called on Nigerians to support Jonathan.
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