Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he derived pleasure from insults spoken against him when he was in office.
‘I found insults funny when I was in office,’ Ex-President says
Obasanjo made the statement on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, while presenting an address at a conference of the African Studies Association of Africa in Ibadan, Oyo State.
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“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,” Obasanjo said.
“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,” he added.
Obasanjo was Nigeria’s president from 1999 to 2007.
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