Obasanjo’s letter to Jonathan
splits Reps
on december 16, 2013 at 12:23 am in news
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North
The controversial letter by former
President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to President
Goodluck Jonathan is causing a sharp
division in the House of Representatives.
Vanguard learnt that while lawmakers
sympathetic to Jonathan wanted the letter
to be formally tabled and discussed in
plenary and to caution Obasanjo for
disparaging the President, legislators
opposed to Jonathan do not want the
matter brought up.
Findings showed that the letter by
Obasanjo had rekindled the bitter feud
between loyalists of Jonathan and those
opposed to him in the House.
A source told Vanguard that when the anti-
Jonathan lawmakers heard that the letter
might be discussed at plenary, they
quickly mobilised to forestall the move,
arguing that since the missive was from a
former president to an incumbent, there
was no need to dissipate energy on it
since it was not officially addressed to
them.
The anti-Jonathan lawmakers, however,
drew the attention of the leadership to
what they termed ‘germane issues’ raised
by Obasanjo in his communication to
Jonathan and the need for him to address
them in the interest of the nation.
A lawmaker’s words
One of the lawmakers said: “What
Obasanjo wrote to Jonathan clearly
vindicates the position of the House of
Representatives that Jonathan needs to
wake up and tackle the myriad of
challenges facing the nation, particularly
corruption and insecurity.
“We must tell the President the bitter truth
and enable him to take steps to move the
nation forward instead of playing to the
gallery.”
Pro-Jonathan meet
It was, however, learnt that pro-Jonathan
lawmakers, who had been strategising on
how to humiliate the former president for
writing what they considered ‘an offensive
and uncouth letter’ to an incumbent
President, met on Sunday and decided on
how to effectively tackle him for his
‘indiscretion’.
A crucial meeting of some pro-Jonathan
lawmakers took place, yesterday, in
Asokoro, Abuja, during which they
discussed the Obasanjo letter in detail and
decided on what step to take.
A lawmaker, who is close to Jonathan,
however described Obasanjo’s letter to
Jonathan as an insult and an attempt by
him to distract the President from focusing
on his mandate to Nigerians.
“We will insist that the matter be tabled
and action taken, at least to caution the
former president against his wanton
vituperations against the President of
Nigeria,” one lawmaker threatened, last
night.
House Media C’ttee
However, Chairman, House Committee on
Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Zakari
Mohammed, said that the members were
not considering discussing the
controversial letter, since it was not
addressed to the House.
Mohammed said that the matter could not
be listed for consideration since Obasanjo
did not direct the missive to the lawmakers
in the first place.

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. .interesting, we are watching while the unforseen unfolds.

It shouldn't be discussed in the house it will just cause further divisions in the house

K we ve heard next 1

the same problem we've been having with the presidential loyalists from the special advisers, national assembly to even nl.

Instead of them taking action on the issue, they are busy with the tissue.
It is very obvious the former president was on a constructive criticism which the president should have taken with a very serious mind to work on.

Some people are saying Obasanjo isn't in the right position to write the letter. Am sorry, cos you are only buttressing obasanjo's point on the letter. If Jonathan isn't guilty of the charges, obasanjo should be in prison for those allegations you levied on him.

Everything splits.

If I am president jonathan , I would split the country

If I am president jonathan , I would split the country

They need to scrap this House Rep. They always behaves childishly. Everything must splits them.

petrov 10: If I am president jonathan , I would split the country

Coming soon 'IF'.

Were alasho

[quote author=petrov 10] If I am president jonathan , I would split the country
Were alaso

petrov 10: If I am president jonathan , I would split the country

If wishes were horses

Oya, you are Jonathan....proceed