Obasanjo Lied in 'My Watch' - Chief Olusegun Osoba

Chief Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State,  has accused former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, of not being truthful in his newly published memoir, My Watch. Osoba spoke yesterday at the launch of the book in Lagos. The book: Watch The Watcher: A Book of Remembrance of the Obasanjo Years, authored by Yinka Odumakin, the spokesperson of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere.

Osoba said he would write his own book soon to debunk what he called the issues of lies that Obasanjo wrote, especially as it concerns how the Alliance for Democracy, AD, lost Ogun State in the 2003 elections."

 

"I am surprised that Obasanjo in his book, denied knowing anything about the arrangement between AD and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). I will give a full account of what happened in my book," Osoba, a veteran journalist, said.

Also speaking at the launch, another chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, also berated the former president, saying that Obasanjo is "a man that has no conscience, a self-centred man who believes no other person matters except himself."

The reviewer, Prof. G. G. Darah, the former chairman of the Editorial Board of the Guardian, described the book as "a provocative and polemical book of memoirs and reflections by Yinka Odumakin about Gen. Obasanjo."