![]() They will dig up your own Paula Jones, your own Monica Lewinsky. They are poised and ready to take you on. Have you heard Hillary Clinton talk about right wing conspiracy after her husband? Those guys are already there in Nigeria. ![]() How do you run the country with those millionaires in the senate who are used to giving orders than debating issues? How do you deal with those moneybag generals whose money I understand you refused to accept during the election? I know you mean well, you want to restore the dignity of that country of ours, but look at the other side of the coin. You remember what happened to Shehu Shagari? I don't want you to suffer the same fate, Uncle. I know you are going to Abuja with the juju from the medicine man of Ijebu Edo. Remember you can cure a mad man but you cannot end his blinking eyelids.Īre you telling me that you are really ready to return to that hot seat? The same seat that roasted Gen. Let other people make the sacrifice this time. This is no time to make sacrifice so that the spirits shall remain guilty. Don't tell me one of those Igbo proverbs your friend Kaduna Nzeogwu taught you. Is it too late to stop all these nonsense? Is it too late to avoid this train wreck ahead? It still makes no sense to me, that after bringing Nigeria to its knees, those who claim they were born to rule have run out of options and now turn to you, my Uncle. It is the head that touches the wasp nest that is stung by wasps. How could they all conspire against you? You even told them what your fellow General, Collin Powell, told the Americans that, "There is no fire in your belly." How could they mess up that country and want an innocent man like you to come and redeem it. They all said you should go home and save your people. You traveled from Britain to America to Canada, asking for political asylum but they wouldn't grant you one. Then I heard that you said a resounding no but they wouldn't take no for an answer. ![]() For what? Don't they have shame in them? Haven't they heard that when a wood insect gathers sticks, on its own head it shall bear them? What river of uselessness did they drink? Which juju goddess did they say sent them to you? You, living jeje, a low profile life, in your little farm house, in the village of Otta, like your fellow African statesman, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. I could not ever imagine that anyone with a pint of that substance called the milk of human kindness would have to sacrifice the peace and tranquility of an old retired man like you. It was such a cruel thing for them to have done to you. My heart was full of sadness when I heard the unfortunate news- your victory in Nigeria's presidential election. They rained abuses on anyone who dared to criticize any of the voodoo going on, all in their belief that Obasanjo had set Nigeria on an irreversible path to greatness. I felt sorry for those who invested in Obasanjo/Onyiuke’s stock market and the new generation banks of those days. The only funny thing about the letters was the reactions of people who bought into all the hypes of that era. Going through these letters, I found myself asking if there are things going on under President Goodluck Jonathan that did not happen under former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Aremu November 27, 2000: Obasanjo and Acts of God March 19, 2004: This Obasanjo Sef! December 19, 2001:The Need To Examine Obasanjo’s Head January 19, 2004: Why Obasanjo Failed June 15, 2004: Obasanjo’s Funeral and April 2, 2007: Obasanjo: The Last King of Nigeria. For the purpose of capturing the trajectory of Obasanjo’s presidency (for those who have forgotten), in all its triumphs and tragedies, I have selected the following: February 24, 2000: Gospel According to St. ![]() I wrote many more in the 8 years that followed. The first letter I wrote was on February 13, 1999, just before he was sworn in. In light of his recent 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, I indulge your patience as I ‘leak’ to the press 18 pages from some of my letters to Olusegun Obasanjo during that period. From 1999 to 2007 when Olusegun Obasanjo was president of Nigeria, I wrote him over three dozen letters.
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