Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, said on Monday that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s December 2 letter to President Goodluck Jonathan was like his previous criticisms of some past administrations, which had not done the country any good.
The group also raised the alarm over alleged moves to truncate the proposed National Conference by staging a coup against Jonathan’s administration.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, Afenifere stated that Obasanjo’s previous intervention in Nigeria’s national affairs had always been followed by a change of government.
The group called on the political class not to “enable” generals, “who have not been known to act in the collective interest in their infamous careers.”
It highlighted how past governments, led by the late Gen. Murtala Muhammed, Alhaji Shehu Shagari and Gen. Ibrahim Babangida were changed following criticisms in which Obasanjo had allegedly played a role.
The group likened Obasanjo’s December 2 letter to a document allegedly circulated in January 1976 during Muhammed’s regime in which Obasanjo was the deputy.
Source: Punch
