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Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo who was Nigeria’s president from 1999 to 2007, said he derives pleasure from insults spoken against him when he was in office.
Obasanjo
made the statement on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, while presenting an
address at a conference of the African Studies Association of Africa in
Ibadan, Oyo State.
“If you visit the Olusegun
Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, you will find thousands of
archived newspaper comics and columns meant to spite and insult my
person even as a sitting President,” Obasanjo said.
“No
individual or group of people was ever queried or jailed or repressed
for expressing this freedom. Rather, I encouraged them because I derived
fun and pleasure from the humour as I know who I am and nobody needs to
tell me who and what I am not,” he added.
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