As president, published insults by critics gave me some pleasure - Obasanjo

While presenting a keynote address yesterday at the  first international
conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) titled,
“African Studies in the Twenty-First Century, Past, Present and Future”
which took place at the International Conference Centre of the University
of Ibadan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said that when he was
President, he derived a form of pleasure whenever he was insulted by his
critics.
He said he enjoyed the insults so much that he kept published insults in
the archives in his presidential library.
He said:
"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".