One thing that is sure about life is death but you may not know when or how, the Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says.
He declared that God has been partial to him with the way He has looked after him (Obasanjo) on various occasions when he should have died.
The former President, who was featured on Untold Stories with Adesuwa, recalled how he survived the civil war and attempts by the former military Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha, to kill him.
He narrated how late General Abacha plotted to poison him to death.
“Actually where he was poisoned, I was supposed to be poised. What he (the doctor) did was that he came to Jos prison and he took me out of the prison to a Guest house in the GRA.
“He had this needle that was already poisoned, which is what they did to Shehu Yar’Adua, the idea was to inject. He said he wanted to take my blood because they heard that I had cholesterol. I said no, I don’t have cholesterol, I’m diabetic but I do and have the instrument for measuring it. I said look, I’ve taken care of my diabetes in prison so you won’t touch me. So that was what saved me.
“Then he said when you get to where you are going, they will come again. So when I got to Yola, within the third day, I told the prison superintendent that I am diabetic, I want to see a doctor. And they called a doctor who was a specialist in Yola general hospital, who happened to be a Yoruba man, Ajuwon, and would seem to know a lot about me.
“So he came and I told him what happened. He said look, for diabetes, you are doing right. But if anybody comes to say they are taking your blood, tell the prison superintendent to call me. And they came as he had promised. So Dr Ajuwon was then called again and he said to him, look what do you want? He said blood. Dr Ajuwon said no no no, I will give you blood. He took the blood and gave it to him. He (Dr. Ajuwon) then said when are we going to hear the results? He said as soon as I get to Abuja. My sister, we haven’t heard the results till today.”
He added that he later found out the doctor was jailed because he mishandled the assignment.
He said among him, Shehu Yar’Adua and MKO Abiola, only he came out alive from prison and took over power less than a year after Abacha’s death.
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