ormer President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused President
Goodluck Jonathan of ineptitude and of taking actions
calculated at destroying the country.
In an 18-page letter to President Jonathan, obtained by
Premium Times, Obasanjo said, �0�9�1�7�1�7Nigeria is
bleeding and the hemorrhage must be
stopped.�0�9�1�7�1�7
The letter noted that Jonathan had failed to deliver on his
promises to the Nigerian people, to stem corruption,
promote national unity and strengthen national security.
Obasanjo observed that President Jonathan had betrayed the
mandate of the Nigerian people who voted him to power, and
had, instead, been pursuing selfish, personal and political
interests based on advice he received from unpatriotic aides.
Obasanjo, wrote that Jonathan had become terribly divisive
and clannish, destroying his own party, polarising the
country along regional and religious lines and ridiculing
Nigeria in the comity of nations.
President Jonathan and former President Obasanjo
�0�9�1�7�1�7It would be unfair to continue to level full
blames on the Chairman (Tukur) for all that goes wrong with
the party,�0�9�1�7�1�7 Mr. Obasanjo said.
�0�9�1�7�1�7The chairman is playing the tune dictated
by the paymaster (Jonathan). But the paymaster is acting for a
definitive purpose for which deceit and deception seem to be
the major ingredients.
Up till two months ago, Mr. President, you told me that you
have not told anybody that you would contest in 2015. I
quickly pointed out to you that the signs and the measures
on the ground do not tally with your statement. You said the
same to one other person who shared his observation with
me. And only a fool would believe that statement you made
to me judging by what is going on. I must say it is not
ingenious. You may wish to pursue a more credible and more
honorable path.
Obasanjo continued, �0�9�1�7�1�7For you to allow
yourself to be
�0�9�1�7�1�7possessed�0�9�1�7�1�7, so to say,
to the exclusion of most of the rest of Nigerians as an
�0�9�1�7�1�7Ijaw man�0�9�1�7�1�7 is a mistake
that should never have been allowed to happen. Yes, you
have to be born in one part of Nigeria to be Nigerian if not
naturalized but the Nigerian President must be above ethnic
factionalism. And those who prop you up as of, and for
�0�9�1�7�1�7Ijaw nation�0�9�1�7�1�7 are not
your friends genuinely, not friends of Nigeria nor friends of
�0�9�1�7�1�7Ijaw nation�0�9�1�7�1�7 they tout
about.
To allow or tacitly encourage people of
�0�9�1�7�1�7Ijaw nation�0�9�1�7�1�7 to throw
insults on other Nigerians from other parts of the country
and threaten fire and brimstone to protect your interest as an
Ijaw man is myopic and your not openly quieting them is
even more unfortunate.
Obasanjo also asked the National Assembly to rise up and
take decisive action over the recent allegation in the country
that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,
failed to remit billions of dollars in proceeds of crude oil sales
to the federation account.
�0�9�1�7�1�7This allegation will not fly away by non-
action, cover-up, denial or bribing possible
investigators,�0�9�1�7�1�7 Mr. Obasanjo told the
President. �0�9�1�7�1�7Please deal with this allegation
transparently and let the truth be known.
The dramatis personae in this allegation and who they are
working for will one day be public knowledge. Those who
know are watching if the National Assembly will not be
accomplice in the heinous crime and naked grand corruption.
May God grant you the grace for at least one effective
corrective action against high corruption which seems to
stink all around you in your government.
The former president also wrote that he was ready for any
backlash his letter would provoke.
�0�9�1�7�1�7Knowing what happens around you most
of which you know of and condone or deny, this letter will
proke cacophony from hired and unhired attackers but I will
maintain my serenity because by this letter, I have done my
duty to you as I have always done, to your government, to
the party, PDP, and to our country,
Nigeria�0�9�1�7�0�7 Mr. Obasanjo said.
�0�9�1�7�1�7I have passed the stage of being flattered,
intimidated, threatened, frightened, induced or
bought�0�9�1�7�0�7 Death is the end of all human
beings and may it come when God wills it to come.
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