Following yesterday’s publication of President Goodluck Jonathan’s
response to his letter, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo said today he will be
making no further comment on the matter.
A statement signed by his media aide, Tunde Oladunjoye, acknowledged
receiving President Jonathan’s response, followed by several requests
from local and international media for his reaction.
“Baba, as he already indicated in his December 2, 2013, does not
wish to make further comments beyond the contents of his last letter to
Mr. President or react to the said letter/response from Dr. Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan,” the statement said.
It quoted from page 14 of Obasanjo’s original letter to buttress that
position. The former president wrote, “I will maintain my serenity,
because by this letter I have done my duty to you as I have always done,
to your government, to the party, PDP, and to our country, Nigeria.”
In his response to Obasanjo, President Jonathan said he had directed
the security agencies and requested the National Human Rights Commission
to carry out a thorough investigation of the criminal allegations made
by the former president, and to make their findings public.
It is unclear if Obasanjo intends to cooperate with that
investigation and whether he has yet been contacted to testify, or what
Mr. Jonathan intends to do should he refuse.
In Jonathan’s 14-page response to Obasanjo’s 18 pages, he said he
only had time to respond to the most serious of the charges which
question his sincerity, personal honour, and commitment to his oath of
office. Obasanjo, he said, did him grave injustice by accusing him of
“deceit, deception, dishonesty, incompetence, clannishness, divisiveness
and insincerity,” among others.
Mr. Jonathan described Obasanjo’s allegation that he may be training
snipers to assassinate political opponents as “particularly
incomprehensible.” Denying that he has ever been associated with any
form of political violence since his days as a Deputy Governor about
eight years ago, he challenged Obasanjo to name the 1000 people he
claimed to be on a political watch list.
In a press statement issued on December 16 by his spokesman, Reuben
Abati, the president called Obasanjo greedy and indecent for making that
allegation, asserting that he needs no snipers as his legitimacy comes
from the people.
“Those who are alleging the existence of snipers should step forward
and provide the evidence or shut up forever and go down in history as
spineless cowards, driven by sheer greed and indecency.”
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