If what the estranged wife of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Ms. Martins, said in an interview she granted a national daily was true about the present state of affairs of the only son she bore Obasanjo then that young man (Olujunwo Obasanjo) deserves great sympathy indeed; even more painful is the pointer to the fact that Obasanjo’s standing in society is fast diminishing. Else, how does one explain and comprehend the fact that the son of a former president of a major oil-producing nation and a key player in OPEC is working for his father-in-law for a paltry sum of one hundred thousand naira every month.
Granted, the families of ex-presidents should live ordinary lives but it is not just the norm that a son of an African ex-president would be this pauperised because the father should have saved enough quids from his perks of office and goodwill thereafter in order to “fix” his son for good and this is not “corruption” at all; over here at Minna, Niger state, it is common knowledge that the son of former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, sits on boards of multi-billion naira corporations. How did Obasanjo let his son get into this tight fix? Olujunwo’s mother, the ever-ravishing Ms. Martins, also spilled the beans about how her son has been turned into a gigolo by his wife who even physically assaults this young man because the one hundred thousand naira monthly pay that her father pays her husband is not sufficient for her upkeep (this wife, Tope, is a double-chin, thickset, and rotund woman though).
As it stands today, President Muhammadu Buhari is not one to acknowledge the support he got from Obasanjo in 2015 assuming he is even conscious of the situations around him and those extant circumstances that brought him to power in the first place. In conclusion, Olusegun Obasanjo pitched his tent in the wrong camp at the 2015 general elections.
Sunday Adole Jonah,
Minna, Niger state
