The name Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo is not only familiar to many Nigerians as former President but to many political analyst and observers as; an "Open Letter Writing Specialist".

His recent letter to President Muhammadu Buhari centered on internal security issues in Nigeria with four key areas to include; the ravaging activities of Fulani herdsmen, alleged planned reprisal against the Fulanis, counter revengeful reprisals on other ethnicities across the country; and violent uprising from a section of the country degenerating to the other ends.

The letter even though not different from the previous ones, it portrays the idle retired but not tired General as antagonistic who despite aerating his lamentations, indicated his lack of touch with current realities in the country and to say the least, promoting widespread primordial ethnic divide to provoke pogrom in Nigeria.

In his letter, Obasanjo claimed planned reprisal against the Fulanis by some ethnicities; the unanswered questions remain as who told him, who are those planning reprisal on the Fulanis, when and how? Is he postulating or privy to a planned widespread civic disturbance or even clandestinely, party to or the mastermind of such a plan.

In what appears derailment of intelligentsia and without any source of data, Obasanjo claimed there is 50% and 70% illiteracy and poverty levels, respectively in North-Eastern Nigeria. This according to him is the root course of Boko Haram insurgency.

One wonders if Obasanjo really worked for the Ph'd in Christian theology awarded to him by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in December 2017. Because, he ought to have known (if his PhD is not politically awarded) that Boko-Haram is a faith-based driven threat founded by a heretical group of aggrieved youths in Maiduguri, Borno state. This is enough indication that the man is not well schooled or simply put "Certificated but Not Educated".

It is not far forgotten, his failure to secure for his cronies, the award of contract for Kashimbila hydropower project in 2016 leading to his first animosity against Buhari. The hostility became apparent in the midst of 2018 when Federal Government (FG) threatened to revoke all oil bloc licenses from allegedly, corrupt individuals believed to be connected to him and allocate same to State Governments.

To recap it all, let Obasanjo know that his time is off and let those close to him advert his attention to a wise saying by Maya Angelou "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude".

By
A. G. Olugbemi, PhD