Iyabo Obasanjo’s Letter To Her Father Stirs Controversy

I'm beginning to have the feeling the Iyabo Obasanjo wrote that letter and it is unfortunate:



Controversy on Wednesday surrounded a letter purportedly written by Senator Iyabo Obasanjo to her father, former President Olusegun Obasanjo. A national newspaper had on Wednesday published the letter.

In the letter, Iyabo allegedly denounced Obasanjo as a self-seeking man lacking in all key expectations of a father and a leader, but often appearing quick to accuse others of the same ills.

Iyabo also commented on a letter written by her father to President Goodluck Jonathan...
Obasanjo had in an 18-page letter to Jonathan accused him, among other things, of not honouring his words and taking actions calculated at destroying Nigeria.
The letter dated December 2, 2013, titled “Before it is too late” became public knowledge on December 11.

Obasanjo had accused the President of pursuing “selfish personal and political interests based on advice from his “self-centered aides.”

But Iyabo, in her purported letter said her father was accusing someone else of what he practised while in power. When one of our correspondents called her telephone number in the United States, it rang until it went into voice mail.

A recorded voice on the answering machine said, “This is Iyabo, thank you for calling. Please leave a message after the bleep.”
In response, the voice recorder said “The mail box is full you cannot leave a message at this time.”

But a close aide to Obasanjo and a former Peoples Democratic Party deputy governorship candidate, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye, in a telephone interview with Punch, described the letter as fake.

Oladunjoye said the letter never existed. He said, “I can say here authoritatively that the so-called letter from Senator Iyabo Obasanjo to her dad, never existed. It is a forgery and it should be ignored.”

A former Minister of Aviation during Obasanjo’s regime who is also close to the former president, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, asked Nigerians not to be carried away by the alleged letter.

The former minister said that he was not in the position to say whether the letter was real or that it was forged.

He, however, urged Nigerians to ask Jonathan to address the issues raised by Obasanjo in his letter instead of using Iyabo’s alleged letter to divert attention.

He said, “The issues that are important to reasonable Nigerians are the issues raised by former President Obasanjo in his letter to the President. He should sit down and address them in details.

“We should not argue over whether Iyabo wrote any letter or not. I’m not sure whether she wrote the letter or not, but we must also know that Iyabo’s alleged letter was not a response to the letter written by Obasanjo to Jonathan.

“We should not be distracted. President Jonathan should sit down and provide answers to the issues raised by the former President and should not use any gimmick to distract us.”