Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that his survival from the “evil plan” of former Head of State General Sani Abacha was due to the “special grace of God.”
Obasanjo was arrested alongside General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Chief MKO Abiola, the winner of the June 12, 1993 elections.
Speaking last weekend in Ogbor Uvuru, Aboh Mbaise, Imo State, at the commissioning of “The Noah’s Ark,” a state-of-the-art Assemblies of God Church built by philanthropist Obioma Success Akagburuonye, Obasanjo recalled that Abacha had boasted that all three of them would not leave prison alive, as he sought to remain in power indefinitely.
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He said: “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.”
While emphasizing that he was a product of God’s grace, he stated: “If anybody can claim to enjoy the amazing grace of God, I can. I said God has been partial to me in taking care of me.”
