Nigeria: Obasanjo's Letter and Jonathan's Many Sins

18 December 2013

IT was a kind of love letter, a labour of love the writer titled 'Before it is too late' but which has been variously renamed by commentators. I'm talking here of former President Olusegun Obasanjo's letter to his political protégé, President Goodluck Jonathan. It was, or meant to be, a private letter which eventually found its way into the public space.

This has got presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, running at the mouth like a repentant witch. He has accused Obasanjo of bad faith, called him names but in the end promised his principal's personal response to the letter.

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