Iyabo Obasanjo Endorses Father's Letter To Buhari, Slams Buhari's Supporters

Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, former senator and daughter of Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, has urged the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to urgently focus on the contents of her father’s critical letter to Buhari asking him not to contest for election in 2019.

According to Senator Obasanjo-Bello, she endorses the the content of her father’s open letter to President Buhari this time.

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The academic based in the United State, also asked Buhari’s supporters not to use the once frosty relationship she had with her father to trend a letter written by her to her father in 2013.

“I am surprised that agents of the current administration who should benefit from the advice and admonishment of one of the most brilliant leaders to ever emerge in modern Africa have resorted to a cheap tactic that further reiterates the message that they found abhorrent enough to start looking for unconnected issues to put together to make their point,” Dr. Obasanjo-Bello is quoted as saying.

In her four-paragraph statement, Obasanjo-Bello further pointed out that “those who published the old letter should have spent time to respond to the content of the said statement which, among other things, called on President Buhari to join the rank of retired elder statesmen in 2019.”

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