An eminent Professor of Law, Itse Sagay (SAN),
has branded former president Olusegun Obasanjo “childish and immature”, for
making his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari public.
Obasanjo in the letter released
by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, had expressed worry over high level of
insecurity in the country.
Sagay, speaking to the Nation,
however, agreed with the points raised in it.
“As far as I’m concerned,
Obasanjo’s main motive is publicity, the capacity to embarrass the President,
and for adulation.
“He sustains a mentality of being
superintendent-general of Nigeria and not accepting that he is no longer in
power. It’s all part of it.
“What he said could have easily
been communicated by phone; the letter could have been delivered privately. I
find writing it to the whole country immature and childish. He made a serious
point, and then spoilt it by the way he presented it.
“If he had said it quietly to the
President, it would have been acceptable. Is he not embarrassed that he’s the
only former president doing it? Gowon and Abubakar are there, just to mention
two. Even Jonathan, who was defeated by Buhari, is there. It’s too childish and
immature. It takes away from the quality and the strength of the message he’s
trying to deliver,” he said.
Sagay also urged Buhari to
sustain efforts in tackling rising insecurity.
“Is the President not already
doing that? Can he be the President and not be concerned? Already, the Vice
President has spoken of steps being taken – that the roads are going to be
heavily monitored by the Police and soldiers.
“I don’t disagree too much with
Obasanjo on substance. It is his style that I disagree with, as well as the
so-called conference of ethnic stakeholders. I don’t see its relevance. We’ve
held so many other conferences out of which nothing came except mutual abuse
and insults.
“I think what the President
should do is to sustain a very vigorous onslaught and not rest until the
bandits and insurgents are rooted out and Nigeria is made safe again.
“He is already doing it and he
must sustain it so that we can be free of this menace to our freedom and peace
of mind,” Sagay added.
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