OBJ Fires Back At Gbenga - Says: ‘I Warned You About Moji’

By Our Reporter - 22.03.2008

Efforts to bring unity back to the household of former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, are beginning to yield results. The embattled former Nigerian leader is using the little opening for reconciliation between him and his estranged first son, Dr. Olugbenga Obasanjo, to remind the angry child that he forewarned him on Mojisola’s antecedents.

Obasanjo, whose political fortunes have lately taken a disastrous dip in the wake of allegations of incestuous relationship with his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mojisola Obasanjo, used the opportunity of a brokered truce between him and Gbenga to offer limited insight into the lingering family feud.

The meeting, initiated by some Egba and Owu chiefs led by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Michael Adedotun Gbadebo late February, 2008, was the second since the scandal rocking the former first family broke out.

The ex-president was said to have told the delegation during an initial consultation at which Gbenga was not present that he could not say much unless he was brought before him, so that he could clarify some foggy aspects of the alleged misdemeanor.

Sources privy to the follow-up meetings at the Obasanjo Farm, Otta, said despite initial mixed feelings, Gbenga decided to accept the invitation.

Chief Obasanjo was said to have taken charge of the meeting by saying that he only had three posers for Gbenga: One, “Did I not warn you about the danger involved in marrying Mojisola when you first brought her to me?”

Gbenga was said to have answered in the affirmative. Second, Obasanjo was said to have again asked Gbenga two pertinent questions in the presence of the Egba and Owu chiefs, to which Gbenga was said to have answered in the affirmative.

Thereafter, the ageing farmer was said to have asked leave of the gathering so that he could tend to his plants and chickens as he had no more to say.

The stunned elders were said to have left after it appeared that Obasanjo and his son apparently knew beforehand the consequences of the marriage between Gbenga and Moji.

They were said to have, however, advised that the Obasanjo’s family should save the Egba and Owu people the embarrassment the scandal had caused.

At an earlier meeting, a source close to the Obasanjo family had disclosed to pointblanknews.com that Dr. Obasanjo was spotted at a meeting with the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Michael Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, where he expressed his disappointment, sorrow and personal grief on the incestuous conduct of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo and his father-in-law, Chief Alex Onabanjo.

Meanwhile, Justice Dawodu Williams of Ikeja High Court has fixed 2 April, 2008, to commence proceedings on the messy divorce suit between Gbenga Obasanjo and his wife, Moji.

Moji had filed a divorce suit against her husband but in his cross-petition against the suit, Gbenga alleged that his father, former President Olusegun Obasanjo slept with his wife, Moji.

Gbenga alleged in the cross-petition that his father seduced his estranged wife with NNPC contracts and slept with her. He also swore that he had grounds to suspect that his father-in-law, Otunba Alex Onabanjo, slept with his daughter and abused her sexually.