Obasanjo: I Will Forever Be Grateful To Rawlings

Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he would eternally be grateful to the late President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana for the support he especially gave to the Africa Leadership Forum, ALF during the Sani Abacha military regime.

President Obasanjo in a condolence message to President Nana Akufo-Ado said he found the deceased former Ghanaian leader “a reliable friend, ally and confidant.”

The former Nigeria leader said that while he was in the custody of General Abacha that efforts were made to decapitate the ALF forcing him to order the temporary relocation to Ghana.

Noting the efforts of President Rawlings to sustain the NGO, Obasanjo said that the former Ghanaian leader “supported and accommodated  and its staff during the period of the relocation of the organisation’s base to Ghana because former Military Head of State, Sanni Abacha wanted to have them destroyed just immediately after he got me arrested and imprisoned on a trumped-up charge of coup plotting in 1995.”

“No doubt, his generous assistance to ALF and its staff makes me forever indebted to him. I can proudly say he was a true friend and brother. His works, values, and principles have had and will continue to have a great influence and impact in Africa and beyond.”

“Like many of his contemporaries too, former President Rawlings provided the much-needed leadership and direction which impacted positively on the social stability and democratic progress recorded thus far in Ghana. A quintessential patriot and courageous leader, he will be remembered for his critical role in the evolvement of modern democratic Ghana,” he added.

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