Former president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said it was fun to him when insulted as a sitting president by his critics or political opponents. According to him, the published insults have been kept in his archives at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta. Obasanjo made this disclosure while presenting his keynote address at the first international conference of the African Studies Association of Africa, ASAA, entitled, “African Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Past, Present and Future” which held at the International Conference Centre of the University of Ibadan.
In his words, “If you visit the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, you will find thousands of archived newspaper comics and columns meant to spite and insult my person even as a sitting President. No individual or group of people was ever queried or jailed or repressed for expressing this freedom. Rather, I encouraged them because I derived fun and pleasure from the humour as I know who I am and nobody needs to tell me who and what I am not “.
