Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would forever remain grateful to the late US President Jimmy Carter for his significant role in securing his release from the late Sani Abacha’s prison.
Speaking at a memorial service held in honour of the late President Carter at the Chapel of Christ the Glorious King, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Obasanjo said Carter risked his reputation to save his life by seeking his release from prison during Abacha’s regime.
Obasanjo also paid glowing tributes to the late former American president, describing him as a “titan and man of peace.”
“President Carter was one of my foreign friends who stuck their necks out to save my life and to seek my release from prison. On President Carter’s visit to Nigeria, he got Abacha to agree to take me from detention to house arrest on my farm. But that did not last for too long.
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