The open letter written to President
Muhammadu Buhari by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has continued
to draw reactions across the country.
Mr Obasanjo had on Monday,
in his latest epistle to Mr Buhari urged the president to decisively
tackle the recent rise in insecurity bedeviling the nation. This angered
critics who queried the moral right to the letter writer.
The
letter also angered herdsmen, believed to be arrowheads of criminal
activities, who called for the arrest of the former Nigerian leader. In
response to the call, a former minister has threatened fire and
brimstone should the president heed the call.
Weighing in on the
matter, a former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has advised the incumbent
Nigerian leader not to discard the contents of the letter written by
Obasanjo.
The civil rights activist urged the president not to treat the letter based on who sent it.
“The
President should not use Obj’s letter as a Toilet roll, just clip it
near the dressing mirror,” Mr Sani said in a tweet on Tuesday.
“The
messenger is not surely handsome but the message is a Bell and a
compass. Obj and Baba knows each other more than anyone knows about
them,” he added.
The lawmaker also said the attack on the former
president is a reprisal of what his men did to the opposition while he
was in power.
“If history matters to us,PMB was also Openly and
Consistently critical of Obj when the later was President,to the extent
that Buhari was called all sorts of names by Obj Boys.For those too
young to know or have forgotten just google and read,” he said in
another tweet
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