Barely one week, after he
defended his choice of successor in 2007, former President Olusegun Obasanjo
has pointedly accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of paying people to
attack him.
Obasanjo, who also
reflected on the despotic regime of the late maximum ruler, General Sani
Abacha, stated that he would have been killed wrongly for the fathom
coup.
Speaking on Channels
Television programme, Channel Book Club last night, Obasanjo alleged that
Jonathan paid people to attack him over his controversial book, “ My Watch”.
He claimed that Jonathan
paid an activist from the South-West to criticise him.
While defending his book,
Obasanjo said he did not have any regret on what he wrote, advising those
who do not like what he said in the book to also write theirs, “so let
the dialogue begin”.
On the criticism,
trailing his book, Obasanjo said: “ If I have to react to all criticisms
people write about me, which most of them are not true, then, I will not have
time to do anything really again
He stated that what his
critics, including Wole Soyinka, said did not bother him.
“Wole Soyinka and I have
been having running battle. As he has said that it will not end until one of us
leaves this world and I have said in this book we re talking about that If he
leaves before me, when I get to Heaven and I hope he will be there, he should
welcome me. But If I leave before him, I wiil welcome him.
“Wole Soyinka is a gifted
man, I have always acknowledged that, but he is a bad politician or political
analyst and it is my own point of view, he may agree with my own point of
view or disagree,” he said.
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