Who was ex-President Obasanjo's father?

The
man in picture A (picture A is the one on the left and on the right is
President Obasanjo's actual photograph), The Nation explained, was an
Igbo who lived in the Abeokuta area in the 1930s, about the time
Obasanjo was born. According to The Nation, the police officer later
became a monarch on a prominent South-Eastern throne. Before then,
however, he had interacted fruitfully with the local community and had
a brief affair with an Owu lady, before his final exit from the
South-West.

Though the newspaper did not say more than that, it
left little to the imagination. Whatever innuendo was left of the
brewing Obasanjo paternity controversy was blown open the next day by
the Abuja-based Leadership newspaper via a damning column tagged
Olusegun Igbochukwu Obasanjo, authored by Sam Nda-Isaiah. Using the
pictures supplied by The Nation as the fodder of his write-up, the
columnist released the bombshell. “The editors of The Nation didn’t
want to say much, and they have left us to our imagination, but it
won’t be from me that you will hear that Obasanjo’s father was Igwe
Onyejekwe, a top ranking police officer who became the Igwe of Onitsha
in his lifetime. During his controversial reign, the throne was in
contention between him and Igwe Okosi II, just as it is today between
Igwe Achebe and Igwe Odukwe,” Nda-Isaiah wrote.

“Igwe Onyejekwe, Obasanjo’s
daddy, died after the civil war and, like his son, was said to be very
cantankerous and quarrelsome.”

The columnist intoned that the
circumstances of his birth and rejection would have helped make the
former president a very bitter and wicked person. He implored Nigerians
never to make anyone their leader except they know where he is coming
from. “And Nigerians really saw that proverbial wickedness in the last
eight years. It is a very wicked man that would increase the price of a
litre of fuel by a whopping N10 on his way out of power, simply because
he has a pecuniary interest in refineries he had just sold away. It is
also a very bad and wicked president that would double the value of VAT
on his way out. What does it cost to be nice and kind and empathetic?
Nothing! But that’s for normal people. And Obasanjo is far from being
normal." From page at story source.

President Obasanjo always took great pride in running the Igbos down and in being the Balogin of Owu and a Yoruba man but pictures they say are more than a thousand words spoken. You be the judge as to whom his real father is. Add to this the fact that he once boasted that any of his numerous sons were entitled to rule Anambra State. A position most certainly given to Igbo indigenes and exclusive thereof to them, in Ibo traditional heritage

It is clear why any one would go to all that extent to deny his biological father. In the 30's having a child out of wedlock was considered abominable and any lady who did was considered one of very loose virtue. At the time, those who did belonged to the oldest profession in the world known to man.

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