{"id":138699,"date":"2022-01-23T14:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=138699"},"modified":"2022-01-23T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T13:13:56","slug":"abdulsalami-reveals-why-he-was-never-interested-in-politics-after-retiring-from-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/23\/abdulsalami-reveals-why-he-was-never-interested-in-politics-after-retiring-from-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdulsalami reveals why he was never interested in politics after retiring from military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar has revealed why he was never interested in politics after retiring from the military.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Abubakar was Nigeria\u2019s head of state from June 9 1998 to May 29 1999, having succeeded Sani Abacha, who died in office in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The former head of state handed over power to a democratically elected president, Olusegun Obasanjo on May 29, 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He retired from the military after handing over power to Obasanjo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking on why he did not participate in politics after retirement, Abubakar, in an interview with\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/i-wanted-to-handover-within-six-months-gen-abubakar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Trust TV,<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0said he is a \u201cvery reserved\u201d person who does not meet some of the qualities of a politician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNo, no! I\u2019ve never been. Politics have never been mine. You see, there are some qualities and some characteristics that make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/garba-shehu-reveals-why-corrupt-politicians-cant-wait-for-buharis-term-to-end\/\">politician<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cNaturally I am a very reserved fellow, I don\u2019t want any disturbance and all this trouble but others, you know they have got the flair to play politics and so I am happy and I hope even the younger generation who are retiring will also go in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cYou can see policemen, military, army officers, air force, navy and so on, are all involved in politics and the more the merrier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Abubakar said he did not play any role in the emergence of Obasanjo as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>He said he discouraged Obasanjo after he was released from prison, not to accept the offer to become the presidential candidate of any political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, we released Obasanjo and other prisoners and pardoned them. So when Obasanjo was released, he came to see me, saying he was going to take the government to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are you going to do that?\u201d He said his business was crumbled by the military, his human rights have been violated, that he did not commit any coup and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, sir, please let bygones be bygones. Thank God you are alive today, forget about these things. Some of the issues you mentioned, within my power I will look into that, so we left it at that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next time he came to see me was to tell me that he had been approached by this group of people, they want to make him the candidate to stand for election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, Sir, if I were you, please disregard these people, Sir, go home and rest and sort your health out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never got back to me. The next thing I heard was that he was one of the presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to tell people that I had nothing to do in bringing Obasanjo to contest the election. Whatever must have happened was within the political parties and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar has revealed why he was never interested in politics after retiring from the military. Abubakar was Nigeria\u2019s head of state from June 9 1998 to May 29 1999, having succeeded Sani Abacha, who died in office in 1998. 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