Boko Haram’s grievances by Olusegun Obasanjo

Many news outlets have reported former president Olusegun Obasanjo saying that Boko Haram has legitimate grievances.

Really? After eight years in Aso Rock during which he took the baton of executive lawlessness to rarefied heights, while making absolutely no effort to rein in the excesses and sheer negligence of the northern governors of ALL parties? Obasanjo rather yielded to the bizarre notion of a third term gambit and channelled everything he had to cuddle and cultivate the northern governors and others towards achieving that ignoble end.

Finally he foisted on the nation an Umaru Yar’Adua who was obviously too ill to lead ably(?) assisted by a Goodluck Jonathan too clueless to effectively continue where President Yar’Adua stopped.

Pray, when exactly did the former president, former member of the ruling party Peoples Democratic Party, former chairman Board of Trustees of the PDP suddenly realise that the Boko Haram complaint/insurrection has legitimacy? What kind of Road-to-Damascus experience is that?

Obasanjo should spare us his sermons. The masses and voters of Nigeria should be allowed to lick their wounds with minimal distraction as they decide for which of the two main unattractive presidential choices to cast their votes come March 28.

Oduche Azih, Isolo,

Lagos State,

oducheazih@yahoo.com

Boko Haram’s grievances by Olusegun Obasanjo