The author of ‘The Letterman’ said he saw old, private letters that indicated that Mr Obasanjo did not leave office as military head of state.
Three years after leaving office as Military Head of State in 1979, Olusegun Obasanjo went broke forcing him to depend on loan to run his farm in Ota, Ogun State, The Letterman, a book by PREMIUM TIMES’ Editor-in-Chief, Musikilu Mojeed, has revealed.
The book revealed how Mr Obasanjo got a loan from a commercial bank to set up his Ota farm.
Mr Obasanjo served as military head of state from 1976 to 1979 before organising a transition programme that saw the emergence of Shehu Shagari as democratically elected President.
At the beginning of the fourth republic, Mr Obasanjo was elected President in 1999 and served two terms of four years. Altogether, Mr Obasajo served as head of governme
