The public spat between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan is far from over.
Yesterday,
Jonathan asked the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to probe the
criminal allegations levelled against him by Obasanjo.
In a
letter to the commission, President Jonathan is seeking for a thorough
investigation of the allegations against him, touching on alleged human
rights abuses.
•Jonathan and Obasanjo: No more laughing matter
The
letter, signed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed
Adoke, SAN, on the directive of Jonathan, had already been submitted to
NHRC.
The letter dated December 23, 2013 was submitted yesterday.
Sources
close to the Presidency said that similar letters had been written to
the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission,
ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The
two anti-graft agencies are to probe allegations of economic crimes and
official corruption against the Jonathan’s administration as contained
in Obasanjo’s letter.
Former President Obasanjo had written an
18-page open letter to Jonathan, accusing him of incompetence, engaging
in anti-party activities, ethnicism and training about 1,000 snipers
ahead of the 2015 polls.
Jonathan, who denied the allegations in
his response, is specifically inviting the rights commission to unravel
the truth in the allegation that his government had begun training over
1,000 snipers to terminate his political opponents.
.From vanguard online