Our Reporter
In an interview with News Central TV, Obasanjo said that while he was being held in Jos prison, the son of then Head of State General Sani Abacha died in a plane crash. He stated that he wrote a letter of condolence to Abacha from prison despite the fact that Abacha was the one who imprisoned him.
Obasanjo said that even after Abacha died, he also wrote a condolence letter to his wife from prison. He said anyone who describes him as vindictive does not understand his character. In Obasanjo’s words: “Abacha put me in prison, when his son died in a plane crash I wrote him a letter of condolence. I was still then in Jos prison. The prison superintendent came to me and said, ‘You have written a letter of condolence, this is the man who put you in prison, or don’t you remember?’ If I am vindictive I won’t do that. Even when he died I wrote his wife a letter of condolence before I was released. So anybody who talks of me as vindictive his head would need to be examined”.
