THE MAIN REASON WHY I MADE MY LETTERS TO JONATHAN PUBLIC IS...… Obasanjo confesses

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday said he was prompted to write his new book, "My Watch", not to castigate anyone but to point out the wrongs in the polity so that Nigerians may find solutions to them.

The book was formally presented to the public on Tuesday despite a court order restraining him from going ahead with the publication of the book.
He noted that the book had been in circulation before the public presentation yesterday, arguing that he had not flouted any law or court order with the public presentation of the book.

On his letter to his estranged godson, President Goodluck Jonathan, Obasanjo said he chose to make his letters to the president public because he had refused to address issues often stated in them.
Obasanjo said, Jonathan's inability to act on national matters in his personal letters to him was frustrating and there was no other channel to bare his mind than the public communication.

The former president said despite the exigencies of office, he often found time to respond to his predecessors' observations and remarks on the state of the nation while in office as president.