Nigeriavillagesquare.com
6 March 2011
Reuben Abati
Former Nigerian President, General Olusegun Obasanjo gathered journalists together at his Hilltop Abeokuta residence on Friday, to disown the claim that he had called for a fresh round of do or die politics in 2011. According to him, he merely sang a song in Yoruba which the reporters translated wrongly. “You people in the press, you must be deliberately ignorant, misinformed, uneducated or mischievous,” the old man who turned 74 (!) yesterday thundered. Obasanjo is probably the most reported Nigerian alive today. He owes the popularity of his persona to the Nigerian mass media whose editors and reporters love to quote him at him every turn, in and out of office. Obasanjo himself knows how to tickle the media with his unending repertoire of wise cracks and antics.
Former Nigerian President, General Olusegun Obasanjo gathered journalists together at his Hilltop Abeokuta residence on Friday, to disown the claim that he had called for a fresh round of do or die politics in 2011. According to him, he merely sang a song in Yoruba which the reporters translated wrongly. “You people in the press, you must be deliberately ignorant, misinformed, uneducated or mischievous,” the old man who turned 74 (!) yesterday thundered. Obasanjo is probably the most reported Nigerian alive today. He owes the popularity of his persona to the Nigerian mass media whose editors and reporters love to quote him at him every turn, in and out of office. Obasanjo himself knows how to tickle the media with his unending repertoire of wise cracks and antics.
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