FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo’s  acerbic 16 page letter which lashed out at President Muhammadu  Buhari and  likened him to the late Military dictator General Sani Abacha  is still garnering rave  reviews among political pundits and Nigerians in general.

OBASANJO’s latest salvo coming two weeks before the  2019 general elections is a treatise in bile, hate and contempt for the person and office of the  nation’s number one citizen,  President Muhammadu Buhari.

FOR years now, Mathew  Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo has become the country’s pseudo national conscience providing the platform for national discourse, thoughts and direction on critical and sensitive issues.

AS a statesman with global  aura, his views carry much weight and authority within and outside the shores of Nigeria. As  a former President whose views could precipitate  social unrest and conflagration, Obasanjo has a responsibility to comport himself with the dignity which his status confers on him by his choice of words and public  comments.

IN the last 20 years of Obasanjo’s limelight, he had unabashedly   exploited the gullibility of a large population of Nigerians on diverse national issue without proffering a cohesive national agenda for  the country which he governed as a military and civilian presidents  for several years.

UNFORTUNATELY, the former president’s national visibility which  has continued to make him foul the air shamelessly is due to the absence  of a cerebral leadership and the  waywardness of  political parties to  give their members enough political education.

THE  current and needless  tirade  of Obasanjo is done in bad faith because he lacks the qualities that confirms nationalistic postures on prominent  heroes like Kwame Nkrumah, Julius  Nyerere, Obafemi  Awolowo, Nnamdi  Azikiwe and lately Nelson Mandela whose views helped  to shape national attention in their respective countries and many of whom Obasanjo seeks to emulate.

PERHAPS the absence of morally upright and prodigious personalities in the nation’s political firmament may have allowed Obasanjo to continue to dominate national space and ride the nation  rough  shod.

NO doubt, intelligent Nigerians know that Obasanjo by his political tirade is a liar  who blackmails  his political targets with impunity and provocation. His trending allegation that Muhammadu Buhari plans to rig the 2019 presidential election is distasteful and unstatemanly in all its ramification. The National Electoral Commission has however refuted Mr. Obasanjo’s allegation assuring that the coming elections will be  free and fair,  devoid of any form of  electoral manipulation.

IN 2014 elections, Obasanjo tore to  shreds his  membership card  of the PDP and swore never to have anything to do with the party. Today, he is back to his  vomit openly  canvassing support for Atiku Abubakar the PDP  flagbearer,  a  man he said  “God will not forgive me if I support.”

IT is  quite paradoxical for Obasanjo,  an unrepentant dictator on whose  instructions Odi and Zaki Biam were reduced to ashes to  label another person as a  tyrant.

A case of the pot calling kettle black?

IT is almost impossible to march Obasanjo’s  litany of misdeeds, illegalities and despotic hay wire in  election rigging,  ranging from the unconstitutional removal of  Senate Presidents, seizure of Lagos fund against court order, stage managed impeachment of Ngige, Fayose and Ladoja. It is too late to forget the assassination of  Bola Ige,  the sitting Attorney-General under  him  and  the harvest of political killings involving Harry Marshal, Chief Ogbonnaya  Uche, Chief  Dikko, Barrister Igwe and his wife Abigail who were  coldly murdered in Onitsha in questionable circumstances during his tenure.  The  list is endless.

THE HOPE feels it is not too late for Obasanjo to retrace his footsteps and gracefully take  the back stage as a statesman. As  a  man who is advancing in age and who has acquired a  PH.d in Religious Knowledge, he  must remember that history cannot be impartial while recording our earthly  deeds. A word is enough for the wise.