Many had been wondering what’s behind Obasanjo’s so much
power and authority in the Nigerian politics and power in general, but after
reading this exclusive true life story, you will understand the reason behind
his unprecedented success in Nigeria’s leadership.
In order not to waste much of your time, I am going to skip
the biography of Obasanjo, at least, you can google it and read for yourself if
you have interest in that, but for now, let’s go straight to the untold story
about former Nigerian Military Head of State and Executive President, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo, fondly known as OBJ.
How Obasanjo’s Father
gave him out as a slave servant to redeem the church of God.
The above title is a summary you can take home in case you
want to narrate it to people.
There was this community church where Obasanjo’s father worshipped
and a time arise that the church needed to erect a church building, and there
was no enough finance to fund the church building project, so that the church
had to reach an agreement to approach a certain man who sold timber to sell
timbers to the church on credit.
As it occurred, the man gave them the exact quantity of
timbers required to build the church, on the agreement that the church will pay
him in a certain agreed period of time.
Unfortunately, the church couldn’t meet up with the credit, so
the man sent them several messages to pay up, but the church still couldn’t
meet up with the target. Therefore on one faithful Sunday morning during church
service, according to my source, the man stormed the church demanding for his
money or that he would dismantle the church roof to get back his timbers. At
this point, Obasanjo’s father got so embarrassed and challenged to the extent
that he ran to the man and pleaded on behalf of the church to take
responsibility of the church credit, by offering his son, former president
Obasanjo who was then a teenage boy, to be taken by the man as a slave boy to
be working for him without pay. He told the man to calculate how many years it
would take his son to serve him to be able to offset the church credit, and according
to my source, OBJ served the man for nothing less than two years just to offset
the church bill.
Now, after OBJ served the man for a certain number of years
and the Church bill was offsetted, the church parish priest invited OBJ and his
father to the altar, and prayed like this:
According to my source, before he began the prayer, he
stared at OBJ again and again, and then he paused before going on with the
prayer saying,
“Your father volunteered you willingly to save the church
from shame, to save the church in time of crises, my son; I decree that you
shall be a rescue to this nation. Whenever there is crises in this nation, and
there is a search for someone to rescue the nation, I decree that you shall be
the one to be called upon,” and that was it.
Now, as OBJ began to grow, this prophecy began to manifest
from the time of the Biafran war when OBJ headed the Nigerian army battalion
towards Biafran frontline till the time he became a military head of state in
1976.
Let’s recall that during the 1976 bloody coup d’état that
ousted the then military head of state, General Muritala Muhammed, and the
nation was thrown into turmoil, and there was a search for who to replace the
slain head of state since the coup failed, as the masterminder, Major Dimka was
arrested at Afikpo, the only qualified person to take up the vacant position of
Nigeria’s military head of state was Major General Olusegun Obasanjo.
Again in 1999, after the so much power tussle and exchange,
and following the mysterious death of the then head of state, General Sani
Abacha, which saw General Abdulsalami Abubakar into power, who then saw a need
to return power to the civilians, and a search began for who to occupy the much
sort office of the Nigerian president, OBJ, who was then in jail on accusation
of coup, and whose counterparts, including the elder brother of the late president
Musa Yaradua, had given up the ghost, was once again called upon to come and
vie for the post of presidency, in which he won the former vice president Alex
Ekwueme in a controversial PDP party primary election. Finally, that second
call saw OBJ into Nigeria’s corridor of power for the second time as an elected
commander in chief of the Nigerian armed forces.
Looking at this story, one needs not doubt the existence of
God, and the power of words from chosen men of God.
Lesson of the story: fear
God, worship God with all your heart, don’t worship God just because others are
doing same, and most importantly, dare God with a rare sacrifice and he will
never forget you nor your unborn generation to come. This is what giving God
and sacrificing unto God can do in the life of human.
Believe me, after I heard this story, I laid down my arms
against the former president because indeed there is something extraordinary
about him.
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