According to Kashamu, Obasanjo lacked the moral fibre to sermonize and pontificate on the issues of security and corruption in Nigeria, given that the former president’s legacies of “betrayal, delabilitating corruption, failed National Integrated Power project, decrepit infrastructure, bad governance and abuse of rule of law, among others, are everywhere.”
Kashamu also said Obasanjo, who sees “himself as the ultimate kingmaker; the Alpha and Omega of Nigeria’s politics whose word was law,” was “simply playing the card of the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC), where a handful of his associates had defected to.”
According to him, Obasanjo was playing the role of an enemy within, while “pretending to be doing an honest assessment of the nation’s socio-economic issues. He is simply APC’s godfather.”
Kashamu, on Sunday, said it was “utterly nauseating” that former President Obasanjo “catches on the slightest opportunity to publicly cast aspersion on President Jonathan and his administration, while hiding behind some public engagements to launch his misdirected missiles,” noting that if Obasanjo’s “occasional outbursts” were part of his strategies to regain his “lost political relevance in the South-West, then it is most unfortunate.”
Kashamu said it was a mistake for the former president to have thought Nigerians would “easily forget” that his 11 and a half years reign in Nigeria was better remembered for “arbitrariness, corruption, witch-hunting and the ill-fated third term bid.”
As far as corruption was concerned, Kashamu had a particular bone to pick with the former president, whom he regarded as a corrupt individual. According to him, Chief Obasanjo presided over the proceeds of Nigeria’s oil and gas for six years as the “de facto Minister of Petroleum Resources,” whose regime had an unaccounted sum of $133 billion in oil revenue between 2000 and 2006.
Kashamu redirected the accusing finger to the former president who tenure was marred with the several scandals such as the Mofas account scandal, the Siemens scam, the Halliburton mess, the power scandal and “the shame that was the privatisation exercise,” among others.
On the following foreground, Kashamu felt Obasanjo has no moral justification to accuse someone or a government of corruption, while also recalling that as a one –time sitting president, Obasanjo influenced contractors to launch and build a multi-million naira library in his name.