Ebute to OBJ: You’re a hypocrite

FORMER Senate President and Pro-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Senator Ameh Ebute, has excoriated former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, over the latter’s reaction to purported pleas and apologies by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing him as a hypocrite.
In an open letter to Obasanjo, Ebute faulted the claim by the former president that one of the reasons he was angry with the PDP was its decision to make a certain drug baron the party’s leader in the South-West, describing such statement and posturing as the height of hypocrisy.
He cited Obasanjo’s claim that as a former president of Nigeria and chairman of West Africa Commission on Drugs, and a member of the Global Commission on Drugs, he could not accept that the zonal leader of his political party would be a drug baron wanted in America.  
Replying Obasanjo, Ebute said “with due respect, baba, this assertion of yours smacks of great hypocrisy and apparent insincerity. Though you never mentioned the fellow you were referring to by name, it is common knowledge that the drug baron is no other person than Prince Buruji Kashamu, a man with whom you had very robust personal and political relationship up till 2011.”
Ebute recalled that it was the same “drug baron” that Obasanjo aligned with in 2008/2009 to institute legal action against the party when the former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, seized the state party structure from him.
“It was this same man who secured the court judgment that eventually got your faction of the PDP recognised by the national leadership, ahead the 2011 general election,” he said.
He also recalled that Obasanjo’s daughter worked closely with Kashamu to salvage his diminishing political interest.
He asked Obasanjo: “The question is what were you telling your ‘foreign friends’ about this man then?”
Ebute also described Obasanjo’s claim that Nigeria’s “pressing problems of widening inequality,…impunity, corruption, poverty, infrastructure, youth education, empowerment and employment” was part of his anger against the PDP, as the biggest self-indictment ever written by a Nigerian leader.