“Obasanjo, don’t write to me, I don’t want to slip into obscurity” – Naij.com reader

Editor’s note: D-One Ayekoto, Naij.com reader, has reached Naij.com via WhatsApp with his own reply to Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent letter to the National Assembly of Nigeria. Mr Ayekoto has noticed the regularity with which the prominent public figures fell into oblivion upon receiving a letter from the former Nigerian leader, Sani Abacha, Atiku Abubakar and Goodluck Jonathan among them. Are Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara doomed to share the same fate?

I am not a fan of Obasanjo, but one of my prayer points has always been: may Obasanjo never write me a letter!

Obasanjo may have done even more evil than whoever he writes to, but while the former military leader always escapes repercussions, those he admonishes are not always lucky. I wonder sometimes how a man who is glaringly not perfect escapes nemesis, and still will not stop bringing out the similar faults of others. Indeed, “Jacob I love, Esau I hate”.

The phenomenon of Obasanjo

Obasanjo’s involvement in any issue marks the imminent end of the latter. Why do I say so?

Obasanjo was not too involved in the civil war. Though others were fighting, suddenly, he took over the 3rd Marine Commando, and the war that had been fought for two and a half years ended in a few months. The Biafran soldiers surrendered completely to Obasanjo, and he brought them all to Lagos, and handed them over to Gowon! Today he is viewed as the man who has conquered Biafra.

Shehu Shagari

It was not Olusegun Obasanjo’s will really to lead Nigeria, but when Murtala died he was unanimously elected by the military. Obasanjo became the first military head of state in Nigeria (if not Africa) to hand over the power to the civilian, his preferred candidate Shehu Shagari, although through some shady elections.

Obasanjo did not spare Shagari when the latter was soaked in mismanagement of the economy. He wrote to him. A few months after, the military smashed the Shagari government.

Sani Abacha

In 1995 Obasanjo secretly wrote to Abacha describing the latter as a Stone Age dictator. Moreover, he refused to settle Abacha’s rift with Mandela, and this caused him trouble. He was almost killed. However, after Obasanjo’s death sentence had been converted into the prison term, he wrote another letter to Abacha, titled No Condition Is Permanent, in which he said: “I was the head of state yesterday, today I’m in jail. You’re the head of state today, tomorrow your condition may be worse than mine.”

Indeed, Abacha’s future was worse as he ended up in grave!

Atiku Abubakar

Obasanjo did not write to himself while in power; instead, he wrote to his deputy, Atiku Abubakar. Atiku has become a shadow of his pre-1999 self since then.

It wasn’t clear whether he wrote to Yar’adua, a terminally ill former Kastina governor he had himself imposed on Nigeria, but he came out and asked him to resign in public!

Obasanjo is the one who hates conspiratorial diplomacy and boring protocol; no former head of state does it better.

Goodluck Jonathan

Although Obasanjo imposed the ineffectual buffon, Goodluck Jonathan, whose damage to Nigeria is enormous, when corruption under Jonathan had reached such a level that Satan was afraid of Nigeria, and even Mobutu in his grave described Jonathan as corrupt (so I heard), Obasanjo didn’t spare his imposed devil – he wrote him a letter titled Before It Is Too Late. However, it had, actually, been late long before the letter was written. Today Jonathan has become a sorrowful history; many Nigerians don’t know why such evil has befallen us as a nation. Jonathan was a monumental disaster.

Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara

Obasanjo’s latest letter was written to the Saraki-led National Assembly (NASS). The NASS whose leadership was brought about by forgery and deceit of other members. The NASS where the Senate president is a former robbery suspect, the deputy Senate president – a forger, and the minority leader has recently attempted to transfer a huge amount of dollars to a safer place. What a NASS?

Their reply is the usual one Obasanjo has got to every letter he has written to the public officers: insults, denials and mockery. Unfortunately, anyone he writes is always destroyed thereafter, especially after their expected reply.

Obasanjo, please don’t write to me! I don’t want to sacrifice the money in my house.

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