THE POWER OF A LETTER: IGNORE THE MESSENGER BUT NOT THE MESSAGE
The above caption is simply the best way to describe Dr. Obasanjo's letter to President Buhari. Obasanjo's letter is so powerful that anytime it's rocketed into the political airspace, the political atmosphere always become cloudy and moody and everyone is then tempted to watch with keen interest and give a close observation of where it may land. The last time he launched the ballistic missile by way of letter was during Jonathan's administration , he christened the missile with bold inscription of "BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE", many political supporters of Jonathan with biased mind thought the missile was going to be lost in the Bermuda triangle but surprisingly and unfortunately the atmosphere turned into an unpredictable eclipse and at the end, the atmosphere changed from Jonathan's administration to Buhari's adminsitration. That is the power of a letter.

A letter that has kept every lips wagging and nagging, many opinions have been battling for supremacy within the media space, the letter gave birth to PROS AND ANTIS, protagonists and antagonists, that is the power of Dr. Obasanjo's letter and whether we like him or not, the bitter and gospel truth has been said. The main focus of this article is to give the arithmetical and empirical analysis or xray to the message of the messenger and not the messenger of the message. After all the messenger of the message is not a saint and he also contributed to why we are all in this unfortunate condition.

The message emphasized with daring audacity and temerity the failure of this present administration in so many areas including but not limited to insecurity, economic quagmire, nepotism, lopsidedness, abyss of incompetence, killings by marauders and so on. The message also called for coalition movement where a neutral but concerned Nigerians will be at the helm of affairs. Dr Obasanjo's narcissism then kisses its own reflection in the mirror when he suggested to be part of the movement, i consider this a great insult and a slap on our face, he should probably be thinking of how to apologise to us for being part of the problem. The last part and in fact the most sensible message in the message is the emphasis that youths should be accorded the opportunity to lead this country, that leads me to herald his message with trenchancy, an excerpt from his letter says "Youth must be part of the action today and not relegated to leadership of tomorrow which may never come" . Now we are happy that our political leaders and fathers are gradually admitting failure and dereliction, this is a then a wake up call and a clarion call for all of us to actively participate in politics and stop our social media rants (although many of us are guilty of this)..

As 2019 is approaching, we need to relegate all these buccaneer politicians with rudderless and visionless leadership, we just need to stop feeding from crumbs left by the leaders and take charge. God bless Nigeria.

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