Anyaoku, Kukah, Others, Hail Mojeed's The Letterman

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A former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku; the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah and a former chairman of the

Federal Inland Revenue Service , Ifueko Omogui Okauru, have heaped praises on The Letterman: Inside the ‘Secret’ Letters of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a new book by the editor-in-chief of Premium Times, Musikilu Mojeed.

Commendations have also come for the book from Toyin Falola, a renowned professor and the Frances and Sanger Mossiker chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin; Dan Agbese, respected columnist and writer, who was also the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Newswatch, a foremost and trail-blazing investigative magazine; and Kadaria Ahmed, founder/CEO at Radio Now 95.3FM Lagos, television host, and former editor of NEXT newspaper.

The Letterman, a 492-page, 25-chapter narrative non-fiction, curates some of the most significant and historical letters written and received by Obasanjo, which compellingly tell the story of his life and defining the story of his country, Nigeria and the larger African continent. A number of these letters, written to dignitaries in Nigeria and around the world, have never been publicly seen.

The book will be presented to the public on Thursday, December 1, in Abuja.

A former secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku said, “I believe that the Olusegun Obasanjo letters will find a prominent place in the chapters of Nigeria’s contemporary history as informative insights into the national affairs of the country when they were written. I therefore recommend this book, The Letterman, by Musikilu Mojeed to the reading public.

 

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