Walter Carrington, Outstanding Diplomat Who First Reveals Abacha’s Plan To Arrest Me – OBASANJO

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington was an outstanding diplomat of our time who first revealed the plan of General Sani Abacha to arrest him when he visited the USA in 1995.

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According to Obasanjo, Carrington offered him political asylum in the United States of America during his trip to Copenhagen to attend the World Social Summit as Human Development Ambassador of the United Nations Development Programme.

He said he turned down the asylum offer despite its tempting and assuring nature.

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Obasanjo in a condolence letter to the wife of the late Ambassador, Arese Carrington, said Carrington helped in easing the move to democratic rule in the country.

“Carrington was one of the responsible, matured and respected voices to take Nigeria out of the unwholesome situation it had found itself – permanently in crisis, regularly threatened with disintegration, prolongingly devoid of democracy, and economically plundered and mismanaged.

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“Indeed, I recall, sometime in 1995, that on one of my trips to Copenhagen to attend World Social Summit as Human Development Ambassador of the United Nations Development Programme, I received the most touching of the warnings, pieces of advice and offers to me from Amb. Carrington.

“He called me in Copenhagen and told me categorically that I was going to be arrested on returning home and, therefore, advised me not to return home.

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“But he did not stop it there, he offered me political asylum by his government in the US. That was both touching and assuring, but I decided that, tempting and assuring as the offer was, I would not take it. I came back and was arrested and imprisoned by Abacha. No doubt, his generous assistance to my family while I was a political prisoner makes me forever indebted to him.

“When I was in prison, he was one of the few foreign Ambassadors who regularly visited my wife to encourage her and to find out how I was doing in prison. I can proudly say he was a true friend and brother,” Obasanjo narrated in the letter.

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The former president sympathised with Arese over the loss, saying that Carrington was the most outstanding diplomats of our time in the world.

It will be recalled that Walter Carrington died last Thursday, August 11, 2020 at the age of 90.

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