Olusegun Obasanjo Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) has actually exposed that he advised President Olusegun Obasanjo to go home and look after his health rather than delving into politics quickly after he was devoid of detention.Obasanjo who was apprehended

by the program of late General Sani Abacha, restored freedom when Abdulsalami took control of power. In an interview with Trust TV, the Chairman

of the National Peace Committee who turned over to Obasanjo in 1999, said he asked the previous President to go and leave politics home to sort out his health.Abdulsalami firmly insisted that he had absolutely nothing to do with Obasanjo’s participation in the survey that brought him to power in 1999. He said;” He( Obasanjo )concerned see me to inform me that he had actually been approached by this group of people, they want to make him
the candidate to stand for election. “”I stated “Sir, if I were you, please neglect this people, Sir, go house and rest and sort your health out and so on and so forth”. He said”Okay, General thank you for your suggestions, I will return to you”. He never got back to me. The next I hear was that he was one of the presidential candidates.”I attempted to inform people that I had nothing to do in bringing Obasanjo to object to the election. Whatever must have happened was within the political celebrations and so on.”When asked whether he ‘restored’Obasanjo to enable him object to in the election, he reacted;” Like I had all other prisoners! What do you indicate by I needed to rehabilitate him?” Well I am thinking of his companies, whether he was aided with something to restore them which was among his grievances. “Of course not only him, all people that were sent to prison in one method or the other, we tried to restore them; to assist them in one way or the other. In one method or the other we did what we might to help them, so you can not correspond that to bringing him to object to for an election.”ToriNG