Tanko Yakasai, a chieftain of Arewa Consultative Forum, has berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo for writing a ‘selfish’ open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Yakasai, who was reacting to Obasanjo’s Sunday’s letter to the President on the insecurity in the country, lamented that the content of the letter might cause unrest in the country.
He said: “The actions of General Olusegun Obasanjo are, indeed, an open invitation for disaster for this country with the kind of hate speeches and messages that are flying all over the country.
“I don’t see patriotism in General Obasanjo’s letters. In fact, all the letters written by General Obasanjo to all Military Heads of State and Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are not guided by patriotic considerations.
“My experience with Nigerian political situation is that the top echelons of the Military are always fighting one another, either when in the service or when on retirement.
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“It is from this angle that I always view most of the writings of General Olusegun Obasanjo to any military officer who is a Head of State or President in Nigeria as unpatriotic. Even the ones he wrote to former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and the late Umar Musa Yar’Adua were not patriotic. They were guided by selfish interest.
“General Obasanjo did it during Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s era. He did it during the late General Sani Abacha’s regime, which later resulted to accusations that he was trying to overthrow the government, which eventually led to his imprisonment.
“General Olusegun Obasanjo also wrote a number of letters during General Abdulsalami Abubakar’s regime; and he is still writing letters in this current presidency of General Muhammadu Buhari. So, this attitude of writing unpatriotic letters has been part of General Olusegun Obasanjo.”
Well, I on the contrary see his letters as expressions of opinions and calls for actions to stop negative trends. Perhaps, Mr yakassai would rather have him be silent in the conspiracy of silence of the previledged against the commoners. Probably it was in attempt to cause fear of speaking out among good minded elights, that his political advice informed the imprisonment of the man by the Abacha administration. Shut up, now. We are in a democracy. Chief Obasanjo has expressed his views, and we hope the leadership finds in it, things to act on to ensure peace for our nation.