“I cannot surrender the sovereignty that was given to me by the Nigerian people”. President Olusegun Obasanjo, Oyo State February, 2001.

For the last few years, and especially since I have been writing public commentaries, one request that I get asked more than any other is this: we want to know about your father. We want to know about his political career. What really happened? Why did he take the positions that he took? What motivated