Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, has revealed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term agenda was most enforced by a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmadu Ali.
Nnamani said this in his autobiography titled, ‘Standing Strong,’ which was published in 2019.
In the 491-page book, he detailed the efforts made by Obasanjo in using the former PDP chairman by proxy to influence his constitutional amendment debates and how he defeated his third term ambition.
He wrote, “Ali became the biggest enforcer of third term and often threatened and bullied party members to toe the line and support third term or face some consequences. On several occasions, he invited me to meetings or visited me at the National Assembly to push the third term agenda. He was persistent in trying to influence how I conducted the constitutional amendment debates.”
Nnamani further explained that Ali also worked with a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Tony Anenih, in an attempt to stop the live streaming of constitutional debates to pave the way for a third term for Obasanjo.
