Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Professor Olanrewaju Sulaiman recently turned 60. At a ceremony to mark the day, many political big wigs including former President Goodluck Jonathan eulogised the former Minister
Professor AbubakarOlanrewajuSulaiman was one of the ministers appointed in the twilight of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2014. But he was one of the very few who stood to be counted when the All Progressives Congress (APC) came after the Jonathan’s administration.
He said “ I was a minister just for one year as Goodluck Jonathan government was terminated on account of the lost of 2015 election. And after Buhari government took over, Jonathan’s ministers were subjected to a lot of persecution, I think one remarkable thing I achieved was that, while everybody was trying to shy away from confronting the Buhari’s Government, to put some things in proper perspective, as that government was trying to misrepresent, and perhaps even portray the Jonathan Government as a corrupt government trying to change some history, I was everywhere providing a counter narrative. So, that again brought me at loggerheads with the Buhari’s government, as I was addressing press, granting interviews, and I became the darling of the journalists. So, the government of the day was not comfortable with that position. Effort to silence me proved abortive. Eventually, I landed in detention. In 2016, they filed something against me, you know what they call a phantom allegation, yes, they did.