Obasanjo Does Not Reward Loyalty – Fani-Kayode

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A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo does not reward loyalty like a leader is supposed to do.

He equally said Obasanjo should be grateful to ex-military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babagida for being instrumental to his release from prison and emerging the nation's president in 1999.

Fani-Kayode, however, described the performance of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in office between 1999 and 2007 as first class and second to none.

Fani-Kayode, who was reacting to the face-off between Obasanjo and Babangida, said such performance had made Obasanjo one of the greatest presidents Nigeria ever had.

He said, "President Obasanjo has to be eternally grateful to General Babangida because had it not been for the latter he would not have been released from jail, pardoned, rehabilitated, funded and installed as President in 1999.

"This is an incontrovertible fact. Obasanjo went on from there to become one of the greatest Presidents in our history and his record of performance between 1999 and 2007, in my view, is first class and second to none.

The former minister stated this in an electronic mail he sent to Punch in Abuja on Sunday.