Barely two weeks after a former President Olusegun Obasanjo unveiled his autobiography, My Watch, the Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, Buruji Kashamu, has presented a book to counter the ex-president’s book.
Some sections in My Watch pointedly faulted the leadership style of President Goodluck Jonathan.
The book presented by Kashamu, ‘No enemy to Fight, Goodluck Jonathan on the Marble’, contains Jonathan’s quotable quotes since 2011 till May 1, 2013.
It was presented to the public on Wednesday at Ijebu-Igbo in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Kashamu’s hometown.
The 171-page book which was jointly edited by a Special Adviser to the President on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Mr. Oronto Douglas, and Akpodigha Filatei, contains 12 chapters and published in 2013.
Kashamu, who the former president also called out in his autobiography, said the presentation of ‘My Watch’, despite a court order, was ill-timed and aimed at rubbishing the achievements of Jonathan.
He said, “The motive and timing of its publication are suspect. It was targeted at rubbishing the achievements of the President and scoring cheap political points.”
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on December 7, restrained Obasanjo from publishing the autobiography.
The former nation’s number one man, however, presented the book on Tuesday, December 9, saying the judge ordered that the book should not be presented on Thursday, December 11, which was initially picked as the date of presentation in Lagos.
The judge, Valentine Ashi, consequently ordered that the book be confiscated for allegedly flouting the court order, the action, Obasanjo had appealed.
Our correspondent gathered that Obasanjo, in the controversial book, had also accused Kashamu of being indicted in the United States of America for a drug-related offence
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