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OPEN LETTER: OBASANJO IS IMMATURE, CHILDISH - SAGAY FIRES
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Afnews Editor
Jul 16, 2019
An eminent Professor of Law, Itse Sagay (SAN), has branded
former president Olusegun Obasanjo "childish and immatureÔÇØ, for making his
letter to President Muhammadu Buhari public.
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Obasanjo in the letter released by his media aide, Kehinde
Akinyemi, had expressed worry over high level of insecurity in the country.
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Sagay, speaking to the Nation, however, agreed with the
points raised in it.
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"As far as I'm concerned, Obasanjo's main motive is
publicity, the capacity to embarrass the President, and for adulation.
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"He sustains a mentality of being superintendent-general of
Nigeria and not accepting that he is no longer in power. It's all part of it.
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"What he said could have easily been communicated by phone;
the letter could have been delivered privately. I find writing it to the whole
country immature and childish. He made a serious point, and then spoilt it by
the way he presented it.
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"If he had said it quietly to the President, it would have
been acceptable. Is he not embarrassed that he's the only former president
doing it? Gowon and Abubakar are there, just to mention two. Even Jonathan, who
was defeated by Buhari, is there. It's too childish and immature. It takes away
from the quality and the strength of the message he's trying to deliver,ÔÇØ he
said.
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Sagay also urged Buhari to sustain efforts in tackling
rising insecurity.
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"Is the President not already doing that? Can he be the
President and not be concerned? Already, the Vice President has spoken of steps
being taken - that the roads are going to be heavily monitored by the Police
and soldiers.
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"I don't disagree too much with Obasanjo on substance. It is
his style that I disagree with, as well as the so-called conference of ethnic
stakeholders. I don't see its relevance. We've held so many other conferences out
of which nothing came except mutual abuse and insults.
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"I think what the President should do is to sustain a very
vigorous onslaught and not rest until the bandits and insurgents are rooted out
and Nigeria is made safe again.
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"He is already doing it and he must sustain it so that we can be free of this menace to our freedom and peace of mind,ÔÇØ Sagay added. (DP)
