Former Minister of Information Edwin Kiagbodo Clark wrote a 10-page open letter to the former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Mr. Clark (b. in 1932), who still is a prominent figure in Nigerian regional politics, described Mr. Obasanjo as an “mischief-maker and an egomaniac” who himself is guilty of the things he recently accused President Goodluck Jonathan of.
Chief Clark drew reference from the time of their common service in the Yakubu Gowon government and Obasanjo’s relationship with all former heads of state that succeeded him to describe the former President as one who is determined to shape Nigeria according to his own whims.
Clark traced Obasanjo’s opposition to Jonathan as a result of frustration arising from his failure to manipulate the President on issues just as he defended the president on his linkages with his Ijaw home base saying that the President has unlike his predecessors not given preferences to his people.
This is an extract from Mr. Clark’s letter:
My Dear Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,
LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
This indeed is a season of open letters, the session of which you heralded with a contemptuous one to His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Your eldest daughter and a former Senator. Dr. lyabo Obasanjo, feeling uncomfortable with your antics quickly fired a response to your now infamous letter that has gone viral and continue to generate negative national discourse.
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