What Obasanjo Told Buhari Today In Abeokuta

The APC’s presidential candidate, his vice and a whole team
paid Obasanjo a courtesy visit today as the team were in Ogun State for an APC
rally. Obasanjo who said he wasn’t sure if Buhari was going to stop by or not,
however instructed his people to suspend every engagement they have outside the
state, in case he decides to stop by. Obasanjo who maintained he is still in
PDP was delighted to welcome Buhari into his home. His words;

“But let me in a special way welcome Muhammadu. Our paths
have crossed on a number of occasions and when I was told you are going to be
coming to Ogun State, I wasn’t sure whether you will come here or not. But I
told my boys -I said well, whatever programme we have outside Ogun State for today,
let us shelve it just in case Muhammadu and his party and his team decide to
call here. Continue below…

“You will remember when you decided to contest you wrote me
a letter this time around. And I replied your letter. When you became the flag
bearer of your party, you wrote me another letter. And I replied your second
letter because I believe that you have honoured me by writing and I should of
course reciprocate by also responding to your letter.

“I have always said that party or no party, what is
paramount for me is Nigeria. And that will remain paramount as far as I am
concerned. There is no political party in the world that is made up of saints
and our own political parties in Nigeria will be no exception. All the
political parties have saints and devils among them. But because what you are
campaigning for is the votes of saints and devils to be able to win an election,
and I wish you well.”  

“I thought that I should say it today. I will just beg all
of you who are contesting to add one to it; you mentioned economy, you
mentioned corruption, and you mentioned security. All of you, I will beg of
you, to add infrastructure. It’s very important. You may take it as part of
economy but I will take infrastructure as special and give it special
attention.

“For all political parties that are trying to woo us to vote
for them in the coming election; let’s go away from red-herring, let’s go away
from trivialities, let’s face issues and tell the people of this country what
we will do to deal with these crying problems of our country. Having said that,
I will also say that while a party must be microcosm of a nation – and in a
nation you will have near saints, devils, rapists, armed robbers and a good
party must have all this in them.

“But what matters is that when that party has to go into
government, it must look for men and women of character. And we have them in
all parties; we have them throughout the nooks and crannies of this country.
Again, I wish you well as you go around. I thank you for this visit. I cannot end
without reminding you, even though I saw some old faces, but some of us will
remain firm at least at the ward level where I am very active in my party,” Mr
Obasanjo said.