Charles Kaye Okoye’s “unputdownable” comment on Obasanjo’s new Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari

You call Obasanjo’s letter “useless” and some people ask, “What is useless about the letter?”

Please, tell me what can be useful about the letter instead.

Obasanjo is worried about the rising insecurity and urges that the president takes action.

Good observations and wonderful call….

But does PMB really need Obasanjo’s letter to act?

Does Obasanjo have to make the letter open, when anyone knows that despite his open antagonism to Mr President, that he would never be refused access to Mr President, so he could sit down and x-ray the security situation and offer his advice. Why open letter if not to heat up the polity again?

For many years now, there has been this hatred for the Fulani herdsmen. Agreed that their many deadly attacks on innocent Nigerians, and farmers in particular have orchestrated it, the hate, and attendant crises have trippled following Obasanjo’s mischievous and irresponsible claim of FULANIZATION and ISLAMIZATION of Nigeria by the current administration. Today, we now talk about FULANIZATION, a new lexicon given to us by Obasanjo. Can he, therefore, deny that he contributed largely to the crises bedevilling the nation currently and for which he’s urging Mr president to act?

Under his regime, Obasanjo promoted the nomadic education with state fund. The sole beneficiaries of that programme were the Fulanis. Still he was not accused of FULANIZATION.

He also produced the current N200 note, and found it fit and beautiful to decorate one side of it with cow, still no one accused OBJ of FULANIZATION.

To the best of my knowledge, OBJ during his time made moves for the creation of ranches, but he was resisted by the Fulani herdsmen themselves, who argued that their brand of cattle was not suitable for ranching. Probably, if it weren’t for those pockets of resistance from the Fulani herders, OBJ could have implemented the ranching policy long before Jonathan even muted it. Still he was neither accused of FULANIZATION nor of ISLAMIZATION.

Abeg tell me what PMB has done today to show favoritism to the his people, that OBJ never did to the same people, and without any resistance from the rest of Nigerians?

Obasanjo cannot deliberately set fire upon Nigeria with his unguarded utterances, and still be the same to point out that fire is burning.

He should go sit down!

Buhari already knows that fire is burning….and does not need Obasanjo’s letter to know the colour of the flame.

*Charles Kaye Okoye is an Editor, Publisher, writer and passionate lover of Nigeria. He is from Abia State but lives in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.