Recall that Obasanjo was in prison from 1995 to 1998 on allegations of coup plot against the military government of Sani Abacha.
According to TheCable, the former president said when he was sent to prison, “some of my international friends sent a message that they were ready to storm the Yola prisons and rescue me in a helicopter and take me to safety in Cameroon, but I said no, if you do that I will not leave the prison”.
Both Obasanjo and Yar’Adua were arrested in 1995 over what many considered a phantom coup allegation by Abacha. Obasanjo and Yar’Adua were given the death penalty but their sentences were committed to life imprisonment later.
While Yar’Adua died in Abakaliki (allegedly poisoned) Obasanjo was released by the government of Abdulsalami Abubakar in 1998 and he went on to get elected twice as president between 1999 and 2007.
Recounting how both of them were framed over the coup, Obasanjo said; “When I learnt that Shehu was first arrested I asked Abacha. He said he was not aware. I said it is not possible for a former No 2 to be arrested without the knowledge of the current No 1. Thereafter, Shehu was released,” he said.
“Later, Shehu was arrested again. I was also arrested. We were detained at different locations and we never got to see again until we were sentenced. We thereafter met at Kirikiri maximum prisons.
”It was a mistake to allow us to be together again. There at Kirikiri, we discussed at length. We strategised on Nigeria. Unfortunately, he died in prison and he could not fulfill his dreams for the country in his lifetime.”
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