“You’ve come out of tribulation and held the highest position in this country. We are here because of your courage. Nobody can say he has information more than you. You have surmounted a number of crises. Nigeria is divided more than before; to realise stable Nigeria, we want to encourage you to continue to speak the truth. We’re resolved and determined to rescue Nigeria. We want you as navigator,” he said.
Obasanjo also enjoined the opposition party to play a constructive politics “without bitterness”
The former president said, “I am a card
carrying member of the PDP but the politics I play traverses Nigeria,
Africa and world in that order. I am a democrat and one of the essential
ingredients of democracy is opposition. A democracy that has no
opposition built into it is not democracy.
“As an opposition, you are enhancing democracy. You are at home, you are welcome. I will just appeal that the politics you play is politics without rancour, without bitterness, with decency, that has Nigeria at heart. I am an incurable optimist about Nigeria, I am totally committed to Nigeria and nothing will divert me from that commitment.”
At the end of their two-hour meeting, Tinubu, in a chat with newsmen, denied that the APC had come to woo the former president.
He said,
“The meeting was not to woo him but to tap from his wealth of political experience.”
One of those present at the meeting, Fani-Kayode told our source that
Obasanjo embraced the APC at the meeting. He said,
“The ex-president told us that APC has taken the first step in the right direction towards making Nigeria great. It was an excellent meeting.”
Efforts to get the reaction of the PDP
and the presidency were futile on Saturday as the spokesmen of the party
and presidency could not be reached. Their phones were switched off.
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