Just few days ago
after he explained why he chose his successor in 2007, former
President Olusegun Obasanjo has pointedly accused former President
Goodluck Jonathan of paying people to attack him. He made the allegation
while speaking on Channels Television programme, Channel Book Club last
night . According to him , the past president paid people to attack him
over his controversial book, “ My Watch”. He claimed that Jonathan paid an activist from the South-West to criticize him.While
defending his book, Obasanjo said he did not have any regret on what he
wrote, advising those who do not like what he said in the book to also
write theirs, “so let the dialogue begin”.He stated that what his critics, including Wole Soyinka, said did not bother him . Obasanjo said:
"If
I have to react to all criticisms people write about me, which most of
them are not true, then, I will not have time to do anything really
again.Wole Soyinka and I have been having running battle. As he has said
that it will not end until one of us leaves this world and I have said
in this book we re talking about that If he leaves before me, when I get
to Heaven and I hope he will be there, he should welcome me. But If I
leave before him, I will welcome him.
"Wole Soyinka is a gifted man, I have always acknowledged that, but he is a bad politician or poltiical analyst and it is my own point of view, he may agree with my own point of view or disagree,"
"Wole Soyinka is a gifted man, I have always acknowledged that, but he is a bad politician or poltiical analyst and it is my own point of view, he may agree with my own point of view or disagree,"
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