Daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ms. Iyabo Obasanjo, has castigated the government of Muhammadu Buhari for re-circulating her 2013 letter to her father.
In the letter in which she took her father up on different issues, she described Obasanjo as self-serving and a liar.
Hours after the former president issued a statement describing Buhari as a failure and that he should not contest the 2019 election, Iyabo Obasanjo’s old letter found its way into circulation, apparently to shoot down his father’s current position on Buhari.
But in a statement issued, Iyabo Obasanjo has held the Buhari government responsible for the development.
She said instead of the government to heed the advice of “one of the most brilliant leaders ever to emerge in modern Africa,” it had resorted to a cheap method.
She said rather, the government should heed the advice given by his father because it was obvious that Nigeria was indeed in problem.
As far as she was concerned, “the wise should listen, wherever help and advice come from.”
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Her statement reads: “My attention has been drawn to the republishing (in social media) of a letter from 2013 that has since been overturned by events. I am surprised that agents of the current Nigerian administration who should benefit from the advice of one of the most brilliant leaders to ever emerge in modern Africa have resorted to a cheap tactic that further reiterates the message that they found abhorrent enough to start looking for unconnected issues to put together to make their point.
“To say that Nigeria has problems is to make an understatement. The wise should listen, wherever help and advice comes from. Those who republished the old letter should have spent time to respond to the content of the said statement which among other things called on President Buhari to join the rank of retired elder statesmen in 2019. I would think this was appropriate and even unnecessary advice given the serious medical problems he has have over the last few years.
“I have had no connection with his administration or to the previous one after I left the Senate in 2011, and to try and use me and my name as some kind of excuse is shameful. I agree with the contents of the open letter and like all people that wish Africa well, hope that Nigeria someday comes out of its death spiral to become a leading nation in the world.”
