Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday replied the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, on the monarch’s assertions of him in his autobiography “Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S. K. Adetona, Ogbagba II,” published in 2010.
Obasanjo said Oba Adetona’s assertions of him are “tissues of lies and untruth.”
In the autobiography, the monarch had accused Obasanjo of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to blackmail and extort during his tenure as president of the country.
The ex – President in a statement issued from his Presidential Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and made available to The Nation, said it was the then Vice-Chancellor of Bells University, Prof. Julius Okogie, who invited billionaire businessman, Chief Mike Adenuga, to contribute to a project at the institution but didn’t inform him about it until Adenuga pulled out of the arrangement.
Obasanjo noted that Adenuga did not need to send anything to satisfy him or establish his innocence but only needed to satisfy the EFCC.
The ex- President said with the insistence of Adenuga to send documents to him, the Awujale was insinuating that he was the one to be satisfied and not the EFCC.
Obasanjo said, “The extract from your Autobiography “Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S. K. Adetola, Ogbagba II,” published by Mosuro Publishers 2010, pp. 187-195, which I attached to this letter was presented to me for my attention.
“Your assertion in the publication was a tissue of lies and untruth. Olopade is one of my best friends and yes, I would be at his birthday celebration but I would not have invited Mike, your cousin, to meet me anywhere other than my office or official residence as President of Nigeria. Kabiyesi, do you think I would set the press up to capture me and Mike in a photograph for the newspapers? That would be puerile of me as President. Of course, I could not say that Mike could not do that. That you think that I, as President of Nigeria, would descend to such depravity makes me think of you much less than I thought of you, until now.”
