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Obasanjo Responds To Clark, Insists Oil Is For Nigeria [Full-Letter]

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3 years ago

Dec 28, 2021.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied claims of hating the people of Niger Delta origin.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Obasanjo through an open letter replied the accusations of Chief Edwin Clark, the Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ijaw National Congress.

Clark had on Wednesday, through an open letter, slammed Obasanjo over what he called a “disappointing display of hatred against the people of the oil-producing states” in Nigeria.

He accused the former President of double standards over resource control in the country.

In his response, Obasanjo explained that as the president, he followed the constitutional positions on appointment and resource control.

Obasanjo in a letter dated December 28, 2021, titled, My response to the open letter by Clark’, wrote, “I have never shown any anger, distraught with Niger Delta region nor any part of Nigeria. Some of the languages you have deployed to describe me in your letter are offensive, uncouth and I totally and completely rejected them, I am not inconsistent, hypocritical, unstatesman, and nor am I anybody’s lackey.

“You use your own yardstick to judge others. I hope you think and adjust. Negotiation achieves better results than dictation. Revolution for sea-change may rarely happen and then we may continue to languish in frustration and regret with dire judgment in posterity.”