#OFFSIDE: "If Jonathan Has Issues With My Father, He Should Be Bold Enough To Reply Him, Not Me!" - IYABO OBASANJO.

#OFFSIDE: "If Jonathan Has Issues With My Father, He Should Be Bold Enough To Reply Him, Not Me!" - IYABO OBASANJO.

Some days ago witnessed the sudden letter from former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo to Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan, spiking the latter on his mismanagement of the nation's trust.
In an interesting twist, this week precisely yesterday highlighted another open letter as published by Vanguard Newspapers Nigeria alledging Obasanjo's daughter Iyabo Obasanjo calling-out her father as a "know-all" egocentric personality. It's quite shocking I know coming from a daughter to her father in te heat of political tensions.

But earlier today it was reported, in a swift reaction to yesterday's allegation of a smack on her father, that Iyabo Obasanjo vocally denied the allegation on one of the Nigeria's radio station Rainbow FM that she never and can never smack her father for whatever reason at all, not even more when it concerns the nation's politics.
Read her full comments below:

"I have never seen or heard this sort of fabrication in my entire life! I, IYABO OBASANJO never contemplate writing a letter to my Loving Father. I speak with him almost on daily bases."
"Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo is the best father in the world. He gave birth to me, he raise me up and gave me the best of Education. I wouldn't have achieved whatever I did without my father.
IN FACT, WHO AM I WITHOUT MY FATHER? As a father he never disappoints his children in any way, he is a father anybody wish to have."

"If President Jonathan wants to reply the letter my father wrote him, he should be man enough to reply direct. Why are they trying to make me a scape goat? I know my father very well and I don't question his judgements, I believe my father wrote his letter in the best interest of the nation."

"If Mr. President disagrees with some of the allegations in the letter, let him be man enough to talk directly to my father, he should stop involving me in an issue I know nothing about. How can you write a letter to insult my father and claim I, the daughter is the source.
If that is how Ijaw people insult their fathers, I am a Yoruba Woman, we respect our parent in all circumstances."

"I IYABO OBASANJO did not write any letter. Nigerians should please take note. The purported letter ('Iyabo Obasanjo replies her father Obasanjo') is a malicious lie intended to rubish the good name of my family. When I get to the source of the letter, I will waste no time to take the necessary legal actions. I love my father and I never disrespects him."


So there you have...the rumour has been cracked, and be sure there's still more to this whole saga!

REPORT: OLUSEGUN OBASANJO's Open Letter To Nigeria's President GOODLUCK JONATHAN.

The full 18-page letter presented thus:

I am constrained to make this an open letter to you for a number of reasons.
One, the current situation and consequent possible outcome dictate that I should, before the door closes on reason and promotion of national interest, alert you to the danger that may be lurking in the corner. Two, none of the four or more letters that I have written to you in the past two years or so has elicited an acknowledgment or any response.

Three, people close to you, if not yourself, have been asking, what does Obasanjo want? Four, I could sense a semblance between the situation that we are gradually getting into and the situation we fell into as a nation during the Abacha era. Five, everything must be done to guard, protect and defend our fledgling democracy, nourish it and prevent bloodshed. Six, we must move away from advertently or inadvertently dividing the country along weak seams of North-South and Christian-Moslem. Seven, nothing should be done to allow the country to degenerate into economic dormancy, stagnation or retrogression.

Eight, some of our international friends and development partners are genuinely worried about signs and signals that are coming out of Nigeria. Nine, Nigeria should be in a position to take advantage of the present favourable international interest to invest in Africa - an opportunity that will not be open for too long. Ten, I am concerned about your legacy and your climb-down which you alone can best be the manager of, whenever you so decide.

Mr. President, you have on a number of occasions acknowledged the role God enabled me to play in your ascension to power. You put me third after God and your parents among those that have impacted most on your life. I have always retorted that God only put you where you are and those that could be regarded as having played a role were only instruments of God to achieve God's purpose in your life. For me, I believe that politically, it was in the best interest of Nigeria that you, a Nigerian from minority group in the South, could rise to the highest pinnacle of political leadership. If Obasanjo could get there, Yar'Adua could get there and Jonathan can get there, any Nigerian can. It is now not a matter of the turn of any section or geographical area but the best interest of Nigeria and all Nigerians.

It has been proved that no group - ethnic, linguistic, religious or geographical location - has monopoly of materials for leadership of our country. And no group solely by itself can crown any of its members the Nigerian CEO. It is good for Nigeria.

The concluding parts of the full letter from Obasanjo here: http://goo.gl/pCv7Wb