No Regret Over Open Letter to Jonathan -Obasanjo
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said he does not have any of feeling of regret over his scathing letter to President Goodluck Jonathan in December.
Obasanjo’s statement was monitored on BBC yesterday, he said his letter was not meant to be confrontational but was aimed at drawing the president’s attention to national issues.
The former president said if Jonathan wanted any discussions on their relations or on any other matter affecting both of them, his doors remain open for that. “Since I wrote the letter, we spoke about six times,”
Asked if he regretted writing the letter, Obasanjo said, “Why should I regret? You only regret when you fail to do the right thing before it’s too late. But writing a letter at the right moment, a letter that is the right letter to write, and you wrote it, you should not regret writing that.”
In his letter to Jonathan, Obasanjo accused the president of condoning corruption, parochialism, dishonesty and training a killer-squad. He said Jonathan had promised him previously to do only one presidential term.
But in his response, Jonathan accused Obasanjo of endangering national security and making false, substantiated allegations.