Nigeria: Why Obasanjo's Comments About Me Were Very Annoying, By Bode George

3 February 2013
interview

As the deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and an associate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, a retired navy commodore, bestrode the south-west PDP like a colossus. Severally, he went on collision with the Alliance for Democracy (AD) government in Lagos, his home state, under the leadership of Ashiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu. Then he fell from grace to grass after he was convicted of fraud while he was the chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). In this interview, Bode George tells the story of his imprisonment which he attributes to politics. Excerpts:

Let's start by looking at why you always say there can never be peace in a state of injustice. Something must have informed that.

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