The President/CiC
Aso Hill Villa
31st December 2013.
Every man, every woman who has to take
up the service of government, must ask
themselves two questions: 'Do I love my
people in order to serve them better? Am I
humble and do I listen to everybody, to
diverse opinions in order to choose the
best path?' If you don't ask those
questions, your governance will not be
good.
Pope Francis I
Sir,
NOW I KNOW IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU
With so much pressure mounted on me by the
Nigeria and International media do I write to
you once again before the year end. May I let
you know that I received your letter, even
though addressed to me, but was read first
before me by the public through the media.
Even the attempt by your Media S.A to use
my daughter against me was also gotten. I do
not have issues with since you claimed mine
never got to you first before the media
published.
Mr President, in less than eleven hours from
now, you and I will be shouting ‘Happy New
Year’ and will even exchange text messages
and call each other, but I have deemed it fit
to send you this last message before you and I
will shout the ritual shouts of joy. It doesn’t
end there that the new year is very close, but
it’s also my pleasure to tell you that in less
than 70 days of 2014, I will be 77 years, a
year which crossed the biblical three scores
and ten, and thus should not be afraid to
speak the truth even if it hurts. And you may
not easily remember this, but 2014 will make
you 57 years of age, a year which you were
born-1957. From all available calculations, I
am older than you with 20 years, an age ripe
enough to father you; hence this letter is like
a message from a father to a son and not as
an ex-president to a sitting president like you
alluded in your reply to me.
Be that as it may, your reply jolted me back
to reality that I made a mistake in the title of
my last letter to you – ‘Before it is too late’. I
just realized that it is already too late for you
to make amends. Very few leaders make
positive things happen within two years of
leadership and you are obviously not in that
category, as you have less than fifteen months
to hand over the baton, except you wish to
contest again, which will be a breach of the
personal vow you made not to run. Let your
conscience be your judge on that. I wish to
now answer the posers you raised in your
reply to me.
Joe, you raised the issue of Boko Haram
ravaging the North East being ravaged by
terrorists and insurgents; and haven cross
checked the eight years I ruled as President,
there was no such record of such happening
in my regime. A pilot has a co-pilot incase
the plane is drifting afar and you were the co-
pilot when late President Musa Yaradua held
sway, and Boko Haram reared their ugly head
which your regime has now made beautiful.
Mr President, I wish to know like many
Nigerians what advise you gave to your boss
to stem the tide then, in private or during the
Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings. To
put the blame of Boko Hara solely on Yaradua
will be a great disservice to his memory.
As a matter of fact, Boko Haram was not
prominent during Yaradua’s regime; rather
your kinsmen from the creek who termed
themselves militants were the ones having a
field day. It is these militants that your
former boss dealt with which has caused us
the current peace we enjoy in the Niger Delta
as well as more inflow of cash which your
Minister of Petroleum has turned to her
personal fiefdom today, awarding contracts to
her cronies, while she plans to sell of the
refineries to them with your able connivance.
If Yaradua could solve a problem in your
region, it will be more honorable for you to
do so to his region; that is what my people in
Yoruba term as a fight of the dogs. As you
admitted in your letter that I advised you to
use the carrot and stick approach, I still
maintain you do so. I regret to say that your
approach has not been sincere enough.
You mentioned my military tactics against Odi,
stating that it never yielded the desired result.
Mr President, my invasion of Odi remains the
best strategy to have used then, considering
the fact that we were just entering democracy
and all insurgence has to be quenched
immediately. If I were to take the same
decision again, I will take same and I have no
regret in what I did. You referred to the
attack on you in 2007 and I begin to wonder
who was in control then. You were the
Governor and had all the apparatus of state to
effect arrest; even to apprehend innocent
citizens and term them suspects were within
your power, thus I see no reason why such
should even come up in your letter.
I had my faults during my tenure but I never
laid blames on the past leadership. For you to
write that kidnapping and armed robbery
began long before you became President is
totally untenable. May I also remind your
Excellency that I was not also the President
then, but I didn’t complain. My job was to
reposition while yours is to consolidate, and
to the best of my conscience; I repositioned
the country to the path of democratic rule
where the Soldiers have been perpetually kept
in the barrack.
You claimed that I am aware of prosecuted
corrupt officials by this regime, but I am
sorry to say that I am completely ignorant of
any corrupt public officials that you have
jailed. They are not hidden Mr President, as
they abound around you. What is Stella Oduah
still doing in the Aviation Industry if truly you
are prosecuting them? Why is Diezani Alison
Madueke still doing her beauty pageant show
close to the Oil sector if you mean your war
against corruption? Do I need to mention
your Attorney General, Education Minister or
the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs amongst
sundry others? It is no longer news that the
EFCC has become a toothless bulldog under
your watch. I may be accused of being
selective in those they prosecuted but that is
a tale peddled by the media by my then
political opponents. Nigerians wish to see
those selected corrupt few who will be jailed.
Joe, I did not mince words when I wrote that
you are sinking the ship of the PDP. Since
your ascension to the throne of Aso Rock, our
party fortune has nosedived. None of the
governorship elections held under you has
seen us coasting to victory; rather you dine
with the opponents. It is my belief that you
agreed with my letter on this, hence our party
is standing solidly behind our candidate, Tony
Nwoye, to challenge the Anambra guber
election in court. I do know that it is all to
the gallery as nothing good will come out of
it. In PDP, rigging is the game and you cannot
claim to be unaware of it. How did you get
into power if we didn’t rig you in? Do I need
to remind you that your home state which
produced your ‘house boy’, Seriake Dickson
was rigged? It makes no sense claiming a saint
when you are a product of what you
condemn.
Your Excellency, the most virtuous prize for
statesmen is honor. You did not just tell me
that you will not contest the 2015 election,
but told other governors. Before my letter
was written to you, many governors have told
the public that you made the pact with them
to run for only one term. While it is your
right to run again, I wish to remind you that
at my age I will not lie, especially not against
someone young enough to be my son, more so
you are my protégé. It was you promise to me
to lead for one term that made me announce
to Nigerians that they should vote for you, as
you have promised to run for one term. The
video footage of the rally where that
statement was made is still available for you
to watch. Let me now be the liar before
Nigerians, but let God be the judge.
I do hope that in the coming year, you would
have looked into the last letter I wrote to you
and make amends, especially concerning our
political fortunes. You have two chances to
redeem the party from losing the 2015
election, which is to win the Ekiti and Osun
States governorship election coming up in
2014. Mr President, your opponents in those
states will be planning to rig as well, and it
will be foolhardy for you to believe that mere
going to present the flag to our candidate is
enough to win the election. Remember that
they are the incumbent, but also have a flash
back that we did it in 2003 in four South
West States with the exception of Lagos where
we swept way the incumbent. I need not teach
you the tactics, as you have practiced it
already in your home state. Sir, snatch the
victory in these two States and send a message
for 2015; then let them approach the tribunal
for court victory which if well played they can
never get.
Before the year ends again; I wish to
apologise to Nigerians for imposing on them
wrong Presidents who have not tasted what
they voted for, and while it may be too late
for you to make real positive impacts on the
common man like we did with GSM, you can
begin tackle one serious and pressing issue
which will keep you in the minds of Nigerians
for long; something tangible that they can see
to forgive your numerous sins. They are easy
people to handle and please with a forgiving
spirit; this you and I know. As it has become
customary, I will also leak this to the Press.
The first one written to me by former EFCC
Chairwoman, Waziri was leaked to
Elombah.com and the next one was leaked to
Premium Times, but for this I am yet to
decide who will get it first.
As you cross over to the New Year, Mr
President, I wish you a more eventful New
Year devoid of Occupy Nigeria.
Please accept the assurance of my highest
consideration to your office and warmest
regard.
These little things matter…
SEGUNOLA OJASANBO (GCFR)
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Secrets Reporters at 02:10

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Mtcheeeeeeeeeeeew... Op must be an e-diot!

What is this whole ranting all about.

These people are just acting film for us, am not interested any longer

This is fake!

NOTE: This is a satire and an imagination ofthe reporterSecrets Reporters at 02:10

why are u advising him to rig election.

.........

And who told OBJ that Nigerians voted for GEJ because he advised them to do so? I now sense the truth and fact of Iyabo's letter...OBJ is just been unnecessary stupid and arrogant...I think diminishing return is beginning to take effect in his brain and only fools will take him seriously.

deeptesting: And who told OBJ that Nigerians voted for GEJ because he advised them to do so? I now sense the truth and fact of Iyabo's letter...OBJ is just been unnecessary stupid and arrogant...I think diminishing return is beginning to take effect in his brain and only fools will take him seriously.

So you too fell for this junk? you should know that the Op is just messing with y'all!

Very dull letter, I lost interest in reading all.

very nice, if only it was a real reply

nija i hail o,may God deliver my father land frm dis wicked souls