Former Head of State, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), has disclosed that when Gen Olusegun Obasanjo came to see him after his release from prison in 1998, he advised him point-blank to abandon the idea of contesting the presidential election.
He said he told him at the time to go home, thank God he was alive, and forget about becoming President.
Abdulsalami also revealed that at the same meeting, he talked Obasanjo out of filing a lawsuit against the Federal Government over his wrongful imprisonment, warning him that the court process was uncertain and offering instead to explore compensation for the collapse of his business during his years in detention.
The accounts are contained in Chapter 22 of Abdulsalami’s 264-page, 27-chapter autobiography titled ‘Call of Duty,’ obtained by our correspondent at the public presentation of the book at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
The presentation was held to mark the former
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