•Says Achebe is living in the past Former President Olusegun Obasanjo
has accused President Goodluck
Jonathan of mismanaging the security
issues engulfing the country. Obasanjo stated this in an exclusive
interview published in the February
issue of the pan-African
magazine, New African. He blamed
Jonathan for the deteriorating
situation caused by the insurgent Boko Haram. President Jonathan and former President Obasanjo President Jonathan and former President Obasanjo “If the President is the chief security
officer of the country and there is a
security problem, where do you go for
the solution? And if that solution is
not coming from the chief security
officer, who else inside and outside will get a solution? He has the
responsibility to solve the problem,
and nobody else should be blamed but
him.” In a wide-ranging interview, the
former General also challenged claims
made by Nigerian literary giant,
Chinua Achebe, regarding the
country’s civil war in the 1960s.
Obasanjo rebuffed claims that successive Nigerian administrations
have marginalized the Igbo ethnic
group within the country. “Maybe he is making those remarks
because he is not living in Nigeria. If
he was living in Nigeria, when I was
the president of this country, an Igbo
lady was my Minister of Finance, and
Igbo man was the Governor of the Central Bank; an Igbo man was one of
the military service chiefs. The
permanent representative to the UN
was also an Igbo person. What more
do you want? For someone to say the
civil war has not ended, 40 years after its conclusion, that person is living in
the past.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/blame-jonathan-for-insecurity-obj/

Am I the first to comment, o yes I am. This calls for celebration