Erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he’s archived all the written insults he received during his time as leader of Nigeria in his personal library in Abeokuta–simply for the laughs.
He disclosed this while presenting his keynote address at the first international conference of the African Studies Association of Africa, ASAA, under the theme, “African Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Past, Present and Future”, which held at the International Conference Centre of the University of Ibadan.
Said Obasanjo; “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. 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 “.
In his keynote address, Obasanjo expressed delight that African history has come to stay.
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