Nigeria, Oct. 12 -- I received a WhatsApp message from Waziri Atiku Abubakar on Sunday afternoon in response to my open letter to him which was published earlier that day titled "And now you call him Bola" together with another article which I published the Sunday before titled "The seventh bid of Waziri."

For the record he wrote:

"PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE FEMI. YOU SIMPLY DON'T HAVE THE CREDIBILITY TO CRITICISE ME".

My response to him, inter alia, was as follows:

"IF I AM NOT CREDIBLE ENOUGH TO EXPOSE YOU THEN WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE CREDIBLE ENOUGH TO EXPOSE OR DISRESPECT OBJ, GEJ, BAT OR KS? IF I DO NOT HAVE THE CREDIBILITY TO CRITICISE YOU OR THE RIGHT TO DO SO, WHO DOES? IF I AM NOT CREDIBLE WITH ALL I HAVE EXPERIENCED, SEEN AN...