Chief Gani Fawehinmi's Letter to President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005 on the demise of Stella Obasanjo and on the occasion of the Bellview crash.
GANI FAWEHINMI'S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO ON THE BELLVIEW AIR CRASH AND THE DEATH OF THE FIRST LADY, STELLA OBASANJO, NOVEMBER 21, 2005 "We must examine what happened in both events and proffer advice on how to prevent future occurrence in each case. We have heard mountains of hyperbolic rhetoric in the last one week and tons of sentiments and emotions had been shed. The time to take an analytical and sober look at the two events has come. Sentiment must not be allowed to replace reality and emotion must not be a substitute for the truth. Otherwise, we will go back to groping in the dark and repeating the same act of commission or omission in both tragic events. I do not know what the post-mortem report reads, but as the husband, you told the whole world in a broadcast on Tuesday, 25th October, 2005 that your wife went to Spain on a holiday without a visible sign of illness. However, reports nationally and internationally have revealed the followi...