For more than 10 days now, the Nations polity has been awashed with veriage of the letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan. Ever since then, the President has been under pressure to respond to the issues raised in OBJ's letter but all the while the silence from the Presidency implied consent.
But yesterday, the President broke his worrisome silence, when he called a press conference and read out a lengthy reply to the Ota farmer. To be fair to President Jonathan, he tried to clear the fog on some of the issues, but not without throwing some jabs here and there at the former president.
I captured some, yes, some of the details in the response of the President. He started like this:
“His Excellency Chief Olusegun Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
You must have wondered if I did not know what to reply you after you published what has become your latest act of infamy, in the name of a letter titled “Before it is Too Late” which you wrote to me.
Sir, I must confess that your letter took me unawares. Read the rest here>>>
