ASO ROCK MEETING: BUHARI COURTS OBASANJO TO COVER-UP MULTIPLE REGIME SCANDALS

Revealed:

♦ Meeting was also about Aisha-Jefferson money-laundering scandal

♦ Buhari  scared because Obasanjo is the only one to rightly expose his past fraudulent records;

♦ Has been pacifing Obasanjo with free access to Aso Rock and undisclosed paid responsibilities

A meeting between a former and the current Nigeria’s Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari respectively may have been underreported, International Guardian reliably gathered. Conflicting reports about the closed-door meeting had flooded the social media, but authentic source reveals that the two leaders actually had a chat over a thread of past scandals involving some United States-based companies and key Nigerian officials, including the one in which the First Lady Aisha Buhari was involved.

A source from Aso Rock, the seat of Nigeria’s presidency indicated the meeting was about critical national issues including the Senate and the Delta crisis.  Obasanjo, in his own conflicting report, told journalists he had delivered messages he brought overseas to the President. The former president who recently travelled to Liberia and Gambia, said, “I have messages that these two countries will want me to deliver to the president.”

An unnamed Aso Rock employee confirmed that both leaders discussed briefly about a recent trip made by Obasanjo, but stated, “Buhari need’s   Baba’s help to cover his own past and also make sure Aisha’s U.S. scandal doesn’t bring more disgrace to his regime. I don’t know about oversea message. Since when has baba become Buhari’s messenger? ”

United States, it may be recalled,  recently reopened investigations of Mrs Buhari’s  suspected money laundering with a former United States congressman, William J. Jefferson who was sentenced to 13 years in prison 2009 for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. Deliberations and bilateral engagements about a possible Mrs. Buhari’s prosecution remain in rock-solid secrecy.

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Earlier in July, International Guardian revealed that Buhari’s  regime was looking at Aisha’s foreign immunity options under Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). FSIA –defines the jurisdiction of United States courts in suits against foreign states – where a foreign state generally is immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of another sovereign state.

The FSIA option appeared to have failed leaving the Buhari’s regime with a rather fraudulent approach. The regime floated a fake passport of another “Aisha Buhari” in the media, claiming that Jefferson’s collaborator was not the First Lady. To further suppress the indictment of the First lady, Buhari has been tactically courting Obasanjo who had threatened in the past to release killer-documents about both Buhari and the wife.

President Buhari, it may be recalled, had requested assistance from the United States to carry out his threats to arrest and prosecute past ministers and other officials who stole Nigeria’s oil and diverted government’s money to personal accounts – a move that would have exposed previous fraudulent engagements in the Obasanjo’s regime.

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Buhari’s plans swiftly boomeranged, prompting the General to personally send apologies to Obasanjo. Obasanjo was already gathering a dossier which included documents linking President Buhari and key allies and colleagues in his administration to major fraud related to various affairs of the government, when he received President Buhari’s “es·prit de corps” plea for a common understanding and restraint. To further appease the aged former leader, President Buhari quickly announced a retraction of his threats, announcing publicly that he would not extend his corruption probe beyond the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Since then, Buhari has courted Obasanjo unconditionally, allowing him free access to Aso Rock, and appeasing him with undisclosed paid responsibilities, it was reliably gathered. The recent meeting between both leaders, therefore, was not a surprise.  

Last year, International Guardian reported how President Obasanjo was the only one to rightly expose President Buhari’s negative past records of public accountability, revealing his readiness to hit the blogs with documents that would shock the nation. The story also narrated how Buhari as the chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) between 1998-99, failed to account for a missing 25 billion naira, confiscating all related documents and obstructing all investigative channels. A source close to the All Progressives Congress (APC) told our newsroom than that “When it comes to being vindictive, you know Baba does not waste time and Buhari should have known better.”