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Thursday, February 3, 2005 View all Press Releases
PRESS STATEMENT
RE: OBASANJO'S CONFAB - APPEAL TO ENAHORO AND SOYINKA: TAKE OBASANJO'S JOB AND RUIN YOURSELVLES
I want to advise Chief Anthony Enahoro and Professor Wole Soyinka not to contemplate for one second accepting to be delegates, appointees or nominees for the National Confab being arranged by General Olusegun Obasanjo. If they do, they will be ruining their reputation and integrity and it will be like disastrous fall from the top floor of a high-rise building.
Obasanjo's confab is a rudely calculated ruse, a devilish bogey and a spurious smoke-screen hinged on dictatorial whim and caprice of the President to advance a horrible ambition totally devoid of the nation's interest and the peoples' cause.
The entire exercise is a journey without a destination. It is therefore bound to flounder into a mission-less and vision-less objective.
The appeal by Obasanjo to Enahoro and Soyinka reminds one of the appeal by Ibrahim Babangida to Tai Solarin in 1989 to chair the Peoples Bank. We warned Solarin not to accept. What happened thereafter is history.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Let Enahoro and Soyinka learn from history.

CHIEF GANI FAWEHINMI LL.D, SAN
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