How I was imprisoned after rejecting US asylum – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has recounted how he rejected an offer of political asylum from the United States, returned to Nigeria and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned under the regime of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.
Obasanjo said the American government offered him asylum after receiving information that he would be arrested if he returned to Nigeria. However, he turned down the offer, insisting that he had committed no offence to warrant seeking refuge outside the country.
The former president made the revelation while narrating his experience under Abacha’s military government in a video published by BBC News Pidgin on Tuesday.
Obasanjo, who became ...