Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that General Sani Abacha actually tried to kill him after his arrest. He recently revealed that he was not the only one targeted, and General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Chief M.K.O. Abiola were potential victims as well.
Speaking at Ogbor Uvuru in Aboh Mbaise, Imo State, during the commissioning of the state-of-the-art Assemblies of God Church, christened “The Noah’s Ark,” built and donated by a philanthropist and Kingdom investor, Obioma Success Akagburuonye, Obasanjo shared that he only survived by the special grace of God.
According to him, General Sani Abacha went as far as bragging that he, Yar’Adua and Chief MKO Abiola would not come out of prison alive because he planned to remain in power for a very long time.
OBJ stated that he simply resigned himself into the hands of God at that point, while praying for God to forgive those who intend to take his life
He disclosed that while Yar’Adua and Chief MKO Abiola truly died in prison like Abacha wanted, he was able to come out alive, not by his own power, but by the special grace of his Creator.
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“When I was arrested, the man who arrested me, I thought he was making a mistake. He had decided that some of us must be liquidated if he has to be in power permanently. There I was, but then, initially I was confused, I had not done anything wrong. Was it a mistake?
When I realised that it wasn’t a mistake, I was full of prayers, including praying as Stephen prayed but amended my own prayer somewhat. I said whether they know what they are doing or they do not know what they are doing, God forgive them.
I resigned myself into the hands of God and the man who arrested us boasted that three of us will not come out of the detention or prison alive – that MKO Abiola will not come out alive, that Shehu Yar’Adua will not come out alive and that Olusegun Obasanjo will not come out alive.
Two of the three he had planned not to come out alive did not come out alive, I did come out alive not because of my power but the special grace of God.
I am not mocking those who are not alive, may their souls rest in peace, but I’m giving you examples of grace of God in my life because those of them that are not alive, it is not that two of us are better than them. In a situation like that, what do I have to give God except to continue to appreciate His grace,” he said.
He then praised Chief Akagburuonye for investing in God’s Kingdom and building the superb edifice to honour the Most High and progress His Kingdom.
Obasanjo also appreciated Akagburuonye’s 104-year-old mother, who is 104 years old, by kneeling before her to tap into the grace of long life.
