6 things Iyabo Obasanjo said in her letter to her father
A former Nigerian senator, Iyabo Obasanjo has written a letter to the former head of state, Dr.Olusegun Obasanjo.The open letter is a reply to Obsanjo’s letters to President Muhammadu Buhari.Here are some of the salients points she raised in the letter: 1.Like most Nigerians, I believe there are very enormous issues currently plaguing the country […]
A former Nigerian senator, Iyabo Obasanjo has written a letter to the former head of state, Dr.Olusegun Obasanjo.The open letter is a reply to Obsanjo’s letters to President Muhammadu Buhari.Here are some of the salients points she raised in the letter:
1.Like most Nigerians, I believe there are very enormous issues currently plaguing the country but I was surely surprised that you will be the one to publish such a treatise. I remember clearly as if it was yesterday the day I came over to Abuja from Abeokuta when I was Commissioner of Health in Ogun State, specifically to ask you not to continue to pursue the third term issue.
2.I had tried to bring it up when your sycophantic aides were present and they brushed my comments aside and as usual you listened to their self-serving counsel. For you to accuse someone else of what you so obviously practiced yourself tells of your narcissistic megalomaniac personality.
3.Everyone around you for even a few minutes knows that the only thing you respond to is praise and worship of you. People have learnt how to manipulate you by giving you what you crave. The only ones that can’t and will not stroke your ego are family members who you universally treat like shit (sic) apart from the few who have learned to manipulate you like the others.
4.Nigerians are people who see conspiracy and self-service in everything because I think they believe everyone is like them. This letter is not in support of President Jonathan or APC or any other group or person, but an outpouring from my soul to God. I don’t blame you for the many atrocities you have been able to get away with, Nigerians were your enablers every step of the way. People ultimately get the leaders that reflect them.
5.It is outrageous that you accuse the current President of a similar two-facedness that you yourself used against the people of this country.
6.I was on a plane trip between Abuja and Lagos around the time of the third term issue and I sat next to one of your sycophants on the plane. He told me: “Only Obasanjo can rule Nigeria”. I replied: “God has not created a country where only one person can rule. If only one person can rule Nigeria then the whole Nigeria project is not a viable one, as it will be a non-sustainable project.