Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed in the book, ‘Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria’, written by former presidential spokesman, Segun Adeniyi, that he disapproved of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to make Diezani Alison-Madueke the Minister of Petroleum. Obasanjo also disclosed that from his first days as President, Jonathan showed he was too small for the office. The former President in the book said: “I saw the emergence of Jonathan as an opportunity to solve the problem of minority agitation. The three majority ethnic groups in Nigeria can always sort themselves out but not so for the minority. A good example is my state here in Ogun.
“Despite the best of intentions, nobody from Ogun West has been able to become governor because of this minority issue and it will take a conscious effort to make it happen. So, it was in the context of that I had to plead with prominent people in the North to allow Jonathan run for a term.There were certain decisions taken by Jonathan very early in his administration that pointed to the fact that the office was bigger than him and one of them was the appointment of a petroleum minister.” On Jonathan’s decision to make Diezani the Minister of Petroleum minister, Obasanjo pointed out that, “He(Jonathan) gave me the impression that he was not going to give her the portfolio but at the end he did and we can see the consequence. He, of course, knew what he was doing.”
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