Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday said former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, “conspired with others” to make him president in 1999.
According to reports, he added that he was granted pardon for an offence he did not commit.
Abubakar had pardoned Obasanjo over a fathom military coup allegation by late General Sani Abacha and incarceration in prison for months.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Niger State Investment and Economic Summit in Minna, the former president said he was innocent of the allegations.
“I was going on with my life ‘jeje’ (easily) in the prison when General Abdulsalami Abubakar decided to get me out.
“He did not stop at that but also decided to grant me pardon and conspired with others to send me to the presidency,” he said.
Obasanjo, however, insisted that agriculture was a sure way of improving Nigeria’s revenue earning.
He lamented that double digit interest rate by commercial banks and lack of access to low credit by farmers were adversely affecting government’s effort at divesting the nation’s economy.
Obasanjo urged the federal and the state governments to collaborate in providing necessary infrastructure to encourage agricultural business across the country.
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