Sagay Flays Obasanjo For Seeking To Embarass Buhari With Facts

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, PACAC, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN) has picked holes in the open letter written by former president Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Sagay opined that while Obasanjo was correct in his assertions, he nevertheless muttered that the main motive of Obasanjo’s letter was to generate publicity, while embarrassing the president in that regard.

Obasanjo in the letter transmitted  by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, had expressed  concerns over the growing rate of insecurity across the country.

The legal luminary made this known in an interview with The Nation, tagging the letter as “childish and immature.” 

He, however, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sustain efforts targeted at curbing the menace of insecurity.

According to Sagay, “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.

“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.

“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.

“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 added.

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