Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said Nigeria is bleeding and needs urgent attention to save it.
Obasanjo, in an 18-page letter, dated Decemer 2, 2013, also expressed his utter disgust at the way President Goodluck Jonathan, is directing the affairs of the country.
While the President was away in Pretoria, South Africa, along with world leaders to take part in the memorial service organised for the late South African former President, Nelson Mandela, the scathing letter went public.
It copiously portrayed Jonathan as an inept leader leading the country on the path of destruction.
Titled ‘Before it is too late’, Obasanjo did not mince words as the author in him showed forth in his careful use of words, selected to drive home his grief in the way the country is now being run.
“I could sense a semblance between the situation that we are gradually getting into and the situation we fell into as a nation during the (late Sani) Abacha era,” he said.
Acknowledging Jonathan’s recognition of him as “third after God and your parents among those that have impacted most” on the president’s life, Obasanjo used the medium to further divulge communication that hitherto would have remained personal issues.
“I have had opportunity, in recent times, to interact closely with you and I have come to the conclusion painfully or happily that if you can shun yourself to a great extent of personal and political interests and dwell more on the national interest and also draw the line between advice from selfish and self-centered aides and advice from those who in the interest of the nation may not tell you what you will want to hear, it will be well,” he said.
The former presidents puts the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party squarely on the President, accusing the PDP Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, of merely following the tune of the piper, in this case that of the president.
According to him, the real cause of the crisis became clear, “when the national chairman spoke out that he never did anything or acted in any way without the approval or concurrence of the party leader.”
Obasanjo accused the president of being a paymaster acting for a definitive purpose for which deceit and deception seem to be the major ingredients.
The former president’s accusation also bothered on tribalism, ethnic sentiment and selfish ambition.
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