Update :Tinubu, Obasanjo meet in Ogun
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Details of his meeting, which was scheduled for 1:00 pm at the residence of the former president is yet to be made known but this may not be unconnected with the 2023 general elections and his ambition to emerge as president.
On his visit, Tinubu was accompanied by the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, first interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, the governor of Ogun State,Dapo Abiodun, former Governor Olusegun Osoba, Otunba Gbenga Daniel among other dignitaries.
The trip to Abeokuta comes a few days after President Muhammadu Buhari received Tinubu and his running mate Kassim Shettima at the State House in Abuja.
The duo were accompanied by the APC Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong.
According to Adamu, the meeting was to brief the President and get his approval on the party’s plans regarding the campaign outfit and organogram.
At a briefing after the meeting, Adamu also unveiled Lalong as the Director-General of the APC presidential campaign organisation.
Since the former governor of Lagos state began his presidential bid, this is the third time he will be visiting Ogun, but first time visiting Obasanjo.
Both men are political rivals.
In 2019, Tinubu asked Obasanjo to retire to his farm in Ota, Ogun state.
The former Lagos governor lashed out at the former president after he alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari was planning to rig the general election that year.
“You can hear the other expired leaders like Obasanjo, ranting and lying. Don’t believe him, don’t trust him. He is expired,” he had said at the time.
“With the sign of senility experienced by our dear brother, Uncle Obasanjo, I think Ota should be enough of a retirement place to keep quiet.”
