Premium Times claims to have obtained an 18-page letter
written by an angry and frustrated former president Olusegun
Obasanjo to president Jonathan, accusing the current
president of 'ineptitude and of taking actions calculated at
destroying Nigeria.'
“Nigeria is bleeding and the hemorrhage must be
stopped,” Mr. Obasanjo said in the 18-page letter titled
“Before it is too late” dated December 2, 2013
In the letter Obasanjo said President Jonathan has 'failed to
deliver on his promises to Nigerians, stem corruption, promote
national unity and strengthen national security.'
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He said in the letter titled that rather than take steps to
advance Nigeria’s interest and up the standards of living
of Nigerians, Mr. Jonathan had betrayed God and the
Nigerian people that brought him to power, and has
been pursuing selfish personal and political interests
based on advice he receives from “self-centred aides”.
In the detailed letter, dripping of anger , frustration and
what appears a genuine concern to rescue a nation on
the brink, Mr. Obasanjo lamented that Mr. Jonathan had
become terribly divisive and clannish, destroying his
own party, polarizing the country along regional and
religious lines and ridiculing Nigeria in the comity of
nations.
Without mincing words, Mr. Obasanjo blamed Mr.
Jonathan for the crises tearing the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, apart.
He said apart from using party chairman Bamanga
Tukur to cause multiple crises and divide the ranks of
the party, the president’s failure to keep a promise he
made not to seek a second term is also generating
tension within the ruling party.
“It would be unfair to continue to level full blames on the
Chairman (Tukur) for all that goes wrong with the
party,” Mr. Obasanjo said. “The 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.”
The former President said Mr. Jonathan told him before
the 2011 election he would not seek a second term, and
made the same promise to governors, party
stakeholders and Nigerians.
The president’s refusal to keep that promise cast him as
a man without honour, Mr. Obasanjo said.
Saying it would be “fatally morally flawed” for Mr.
Jonathan to contest in 2015, Mr. Obasanjo added, “As a
leader, two things you must cherish and hold dear
among others are trust and honour both of which are
important ingredients of character. I will want to see
anyone in the Office of the Presidency of Nigeria as a
man or woman who can be trusted, a person of honour
in his words and character.”
Mr. Obasanjo also accused Mr. Jonathan of anti-party
conducts – supporting opposition parties’ candidates in
governorship elections in Lagos, Ondo, Edo and
Anambra states at the detriment of PDP’s own
candidates –, and of pitting party members against one
another.
Saying the President had failed to address the
underlying causes of the Boko Haram menace, Mr.
Obasanjo urged Mr. Jonathan to adopt a carrot and
stick approach in dealing with the insurgency explaining
that “conventional military actions based on standard
phases of military operations alone will not permanently
and effectively deal with the issue of Boko Haram”.
Mr. Obasanjo also tackled Mr. Jonathan for allegedly
being clannish. “For you to allow yourself to be
“possessed”, so to say, to the exclusion of most of the
rest of Nigerians as an “Ijaw man” 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 ‘Ijaw nation’ are not your friends
genuinely, not friends of Nigeria nor friends of ‘Ijaw
nation’ they tout about.
“To allow or tacitly encourage people of ‘Ijaw nation’ 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.
Two Ijaw men, ex-militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, and a
former federal commissioner for information, Edwin
Clark, who carries himself around as the political
godfather of the president, are known to talk down on
people opposed to the president.
Mr. Obasanjo also accused Mr. Jonathan of placing
over 1000 Nigerians on political watch list and “training
snipers and other armed personnel secretly and
clandestinely acquiring weapons to match for political
purposes like Abacha and training them where Abacha
trained his killers”.
He wondered why the Presidency was providing
assistance for a murderer to evade justice.
“Presidential assistance for a murderer to evade justice
and presidential delegation to welcome him home can
only be in bad taste generally but particularly to the
family of his victim,” Mr. Obasanjo said. “Assisting
criminals to evade justice cannot be part of the job of the
presidency. Or, as it is viwed in some quarters, is he
being recruited to do for you what he had done for
Abacha in the past? Hopefully, he should have learned
his lesson. Let us continue to watch.”
Mr. Obasanjo did not mention the name of the murderer
he accused the President of protecting but he seems to
be referring to Hamza Al-Mustapha, a former security
aide to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who is
facing trial for allegedly masterminding the killing of
Kudirat Abiola, the wife of Moshood Abiola, the winner
of the annulled 1993 presidential election.
Mr. Al-Mustapha was freed by the appeal court in July
but the Lagos state government has since appealed the
judgment at the Supreme Court.
The former President also called on the National
Assembly to rise up and take decisive action over the
recent allegation in the country that the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation failed to remit billions of
dollars in proceeds of crude oil sales to the federation
account.
“This allegation will not fly away by non-action, cover-
up, denial or bribing possible investigators,” Mr.
Obasanjo told the President. “Please 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.”
Mr. Obasanjo said he wrote the letter in the national
interest, saying nothing, at this stage of his life, would
prevent him from standing up for whatever he considers
to be in the best interest of Nigeria, Africa and the world.
He said he was ready for whatever backlash his letter
would provoke from the presidency.
“Knowing 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…,” Mr. Obasanjo said.
“I have passed the stage of being flattered, intimidated,
threatened, frightened, induced or bought… Death is the
end of all human beings and may it come when God
wills it to come

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