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  • I’ll keep attacking Buhari’s govt, says Obasanjo

    Former president Olusegun Obasanjo turned 82 on Tuesday and declared that he would not cease bashing the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari until the administration begins to do the right things needed to be done.

    Obasanjo said he has held the mantle of leadership of Nigeria longer than any past or present leader, advising those pressuring him to give up criticising Buhari to also tell the President to run the country the right way.

    The ex – Head of States made this known in his remarks at a ceremony marking his 82nd birthday within the sprawling Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

    The elder statesman and Ebora Owu spoke in reaction to comments by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, during the ceremony that he should leave President Buhari alone to concentrate on the onerous business of governance.

    Oba Gbadebo had while speaking during a public lecture organised by the Center For Human Security and Dialogue, an arm of the OOPL, to mark Obasanjo’s birthday, pleaded with the ex – President to relax his criticism of Buhari’s government, reminding him that Buhari was his(Alake) boss in the military.

    “You all know that I was an officer under General Buhari so each time Obasanjo criticises my boss, I always stand to say my senior (OBJ), please leave the President alone! At 82, baba is still fighting on, please fight less and be a consultant to everybody,” Oba Gbadebo had said

    But responding, Obasanjo urged Egba monarch to tell his boss (Buhari) to do the right thing in the way he governs the country lest he keeps getting bashing from him.

    Obasanjo who noted that he was also a boss to President Buhari, said there was nothing personal in all his criticism of the president.

    Nothing that governments in African continent have no alternative to democracy, the Octogenarian emphatically stated that criticisms and “saying the other side” of any government’s policies are part of the beauties of democracy.

    Obasanjo said: “I believe that Africa has no alternative to democracy, good governance and development, growth and progress of our economy. We have none and if that is not happening in any country, those who keep quiet about it are accomplices to the crime.

    “You see, in a democracy, you criticize a policy of government because it is not a family affair. Even if it is my brother that is there and he is not doing what I think he should do, he must be criticised. That is what democracy is all about: criticisms; saying the other side.

    “So, if I say anybody in government in Nigeria or any government for that matter is not doing well, let that government prove that he is doing well. So, Kabiyesi, your boss, Buhari; there is nothing personal between me and him. Just as he is your boss, I am also his boss with due respect.

    “The point is that I have being in that position longer than any Nigerian could ever be there. That is the truth because if any Nigerian comes in now and have two terms, he will not have almost four (4) years of military rule.

    “I have been there longer than any Nigerian will ever be there. So, when I say something, I know what I am talking about. So, Kabiyesi, anytime you say ‘leave my boss alone’; I agree, he is your boss, but I am also his boss. So, you might also ask your boss to leave his boss alone or do what is right that his boss wants him to do.”

    Read Also: Stop attacking Buhari, take rest at 82, Alake advises Obasanjo

    However, the guest lecturer at the public lecture titled: “Colonialism, Apartheid, Freedom and South Africa Rising”, the President of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in South Africa, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi (MP) eulogised Obasanjo, saying his legacies are all written in gold for present and future generation of Africans.

    Buthelezi, who is also the traditional Prime minister for the Zulu Monarch and Nation, said Obasanjo has continued to offer his vast experience, wisdom and insight for the sake of freedom, democracy, social justice and economic growth of humanity.

    “And who else is better to write on a subject of such central importance to Africa than former President Olusegun Obasanjo?

    “Under his leadership as President of Nigeria, the GDP of Nigeria grew phenomenally. Any President who can secure economic growth for their country, provides their people with the two things most needed: development and hope,” Butelezi said.

  • Obasanjo keeps mum over Buhari’s reelection

    As congratulatory messages continued to pour in from within and outside the country over the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has kept mum over the development.

    The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in the early hours of Wednesday declared Buhari winner of the Saturday’s presidential polls.

    Prominent and well-meaning Nigerians as well as international leaders have since been commending and congratulating Buhari over his victory in the election, widely adjudged as peaceful and credible.

    Obasanjo, who had been quite vocal in the build-p to the election has, however, appears to have suddenly gone into hiding by keeping silent since the result was announced.

    Telephone calls made to Obasanjo’s Media Aide, Mr Kehinde Akinyemi, by the correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) were not picked while text messages sent to him for reaction were neither acknowledged nor replied.

    Read Also: Obasanjo casts vote in Abeokuta

    NAN recalls that Obasanjo, had severally castigated Buhari, and openly campaigned against him few months to the election.

    The former president also endorsed and adopted Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the major opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), whom he had once accused and condemned over corruption claims.

    He had also told Nigerians that God would not forgive him (Obasanjo) if he ever supported Atiku to be president.

    He, however, later changed political gear to ensure that Buhari was not re-elected.

    The presidency has however repeatedly asked Nigerians to ignore Mr Obasanjo, saying Mr Buhari’s performance in office was enough to earn him re-election.

    From the results announced by INEC, Buhari had defeated Atiku in Obasanjo’s polling unit in Abeokuta and also scored a total of 15,191,847 to defeat Atiku, his closest rival who scored 11,262,978 votes.

    NAN

  • Buhari floors Atiku in Obasanjo’s unit

    President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress (APC) has defeated Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s polling unit in Abeokuta in Saturday’s presidential poll.

    INEC Presiding Officer for the centre, Adakole Ochegbudu, announced that Buhari scored 87 votes while Atiku scored 18 votes in the election.

    Read Also: Atiku loses polling unit to Buhari

    Obasanjo had severally castigated Buhari and openly announced his support for Atiku ahead of the election.

    The former president could not, however, deliver his poling unit to his anointed candidate.

    NAN

  • INEC officials, materials not available at Obasanjo Polling Unit

    Two hours into the commencement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ward designated as Ward 11 unit 22, within Olusomi compound, Abeokuta, in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, is yet to commence.

    Although voters had turned up in fairly large number, there were no officials from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) or election materials on ground save the Operatives of the  Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC).

    Read Also: Fears over Obasanjo’s link with foreign poll observers

    Also, Obasanjo to had not yet arrived his ward or polling  station, perhaps because of unavailability of the  INEC personnel to attend to the anxious would – be – voters.

  • Buhari’s directive against ballot snatchers patriotic, says ex- Speaker

    A former Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Femi Bamisile, has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to security operatives to deal ruthlessly with ballot snatchers.

    The directive, he said, is not defective but patriotic.

    The chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) said the comment has proven the Buhari-led administration had no plan to rig the February 23 rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly polls.

    He argued the President is committed to credible electoral process, saying Buhari remains allergic to any acts capable of undermining the country nascent democracy.

    The House of Representatives candidate in Ekiti South Federal constituency II predicted Buhari and other candidates of the party would win in Ekiti by 80 percent on Saturday.

    Bamisile, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday while interacting with journalists, said: “The President didn’t give a shooting order the way former President Olusegun Obasanjo gave a shoot at sight order against OPC when he was President.

    “President Buhari only said those who snatched ballots will have themselves to blame. So, I stand hundred percent behind him on this order.

    Read Also: Buhari warns ballot box snatchers

    “We are not in the 19th century when things were absurd. It is a barbaric act for anyone to snatch ballot boxes.

    “If anyone loses his life while attempting to snatch ballot boxes, he should have himself to blame.

    “Nigerians should see elections as a process that will come and go and the nation will remain.”

    He added: “Why is the PDP afraid? If you are not a thief and they say if you steal you go to jail, why are you bothered if you are not a thief?”

    He promised if elected, he would join the vanguard of those federal legislators that will make laws for the good governance of the nation, which on the long run will have positive impacts on the citizens.

    Bamisile said his utmost priority for the masses in his constituents would be bursary and scholarship awards to students and provision of solar- driven ICT library to aid learning and research.

    He added that provision of employment for youths and empowerment for women groups to alleviate poverty in the state would be given premium.

    Speaking on the allegation some Resident Electoral Commissioners had been bribed and ready to compromise for PDP, Bamisile said the leadership of the commission may not be the problem but those around him.

    “There are so many bad eggs in INEC but the way I see Prof Yakubu, isn’t a bad person.

    “But as a leader, he must watch those around him who could undermine credible electoral process by their conducts.

    “But to make the job easier for INEC, politicians need to be more civil, patriotic and realize that the game is temporary, it doesn’t last forever.”

  • I’ll vote if I’m alive – Obasanjo

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday assured that he would vote during the Presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for tomorrow if he is “alive.”

    Obasanjo, who described the polls as a “red letter day” for Nigeria, added it should be used to stabilise the nation’s democracy.

    The elder statesman made this known to reporters at his sprawling Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital while readying himself to play a squash game within the facility.

    He also denied rumour on the social media he jetted out of the country without waiting to cast his vote for the Atiku Abubakar he is labouring to foist on Nigerians.

    He cursed the rumour mongers, saying God would deal with them at the “appropriate time.”

    He assured that he would vote at his usual polling (Ita Eko) where he registered.

    Obasanjo said: “If I am here and alive and kicking, I will vote. Why do you think I will travel out of the country because of the election?

    Read Also: What happened to power sector cash, by Obasanjo

    “If there is no any reason, I believe I should be here to exercise my civic responsibility which is to vote according to the dictate of my heart both tomorrow and on the 2nd of March, 2019.

    “Those who are carrying that kind rumour or what they now call fake news, I think I leave them in the hands of God.

    “You know, I’m used to that type of things now and in Yorubaland, we have this saying that if your head is hard, you don’t have to worry yourself.

    “So, let anybody tell lies against me, let anybody issue fake news against me, let anybody abuse me, my God will deal with them rightly and at the appropriate time.

    “On the elections, I believe that tomorrow should be a red letter day for all Nigerians. A day when we should be able to say that we are firmly stabilise our democracy.

    “Although for me, I still have some apprehensions. If the news of the already thumb printed ballot papers in Kano state yesterday.

    “I have received news in Ondo today I have received news in Ikorodu where ballot papers that have been thumb printed were allegedly intercepted there is trouble”.

    “If these things are true; we haven’t had anything like these before. I don’t want to say ‘oh, have I not told you!’ But it will be sad if they are true and then, maybe, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will then have to tell us, how this has to happen and maybe the commission will have an answer to that.

    “And not only answer, but precautions against this tomorrow because if people are already thumb printing, obviously they want to make sure that those already thumb printed ballot papers are used. If that happens, then it will make nonsense of all that INEC has prepared for and all that Nigerians are looking forward to.”

     

  • NHRC endorses Buhari for second term

    The Nigerian Human Right Community (NHRC) on Monday advised Nigerians not to be swayed in by mere promises but should have critical evaluation of the current and past administrations on the affairs of the country as a determinant on who to cast their vote for on February 16.

    NHRC, a coalition of 135 civil society and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) made this known at a briefing in Maryland to declare its support for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice President, Prof Yemi Osibanjo.

    Its Secretary, Taiwo Adeleye  noted that  with the two contending parties; the All Progressives Congress(APC) and the People’s Democratic Party(PDP), and other parities in the race, it is a difficult and delicate choice as Nigerians are expected to pick the candidates that best aggregates their interest.

    He said the sensitivity of the election was necessary to remind the electorates to vote according to their conscience that would advance their course as citizens of the country.

    “This is coming about 11 days to the presidential election in Africa’s most populous country of 170million people. There is no way you will go and vote without having made up your mind on who you want to vote for especially concerning a presidential election. We are now telling the electorates that before you go out there to vote, apart from seeking to know your conscience, what exactly is your conscience telling you? You need to look back, compare the two administrations; the past and the present, which is better off, which one would advance your course, your children and probably your generation.

    “We consider one major factor: the personal credibility of the two leading contenders.  It will be worst to have a man that has no iota of credibility at home and abroad to sit as the number one citizen of the country. It will be disastrous to have a proven corrupt man as the most important figure in Nigeria. We believe with the credibility of Buhari and Osibanjo, their errors of recent past can be corrected in the most honest manner” he said.

    He noted that the 2015 election marked the first attempt to create a paradigm shift from corruption which has been synonymously known with the country.

    He explained that though there have been many  societal issues retained and new ones sprouting up since 2015, the country has experienced onward movement in the last three and half years of the Buhari’s administration.

    Affirming that the two contending parties APC and PDP stand the potential of winning the 2019 presidential election, he said NHRC nurse the fear that returning the country to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP and his supporters like General Ibrahim Babaginda, Olusegun Obasanjo and others would be a costly mistake.

    “In our view, a return to the locust years will be disastrous for the future of Africa’s most famous country. As civil right movements that have fought a string of battles since three years of the military, we have historic responsibility to ensure this does not happen. We cannot fold our hands in midst of a deluge of options. We need to galvanize our members along a better path in the search for a greater country.

    Adeleye also lend his voice on the removal of the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen, cautioned that the crisis in the judiciary has the potential of damaging the democratic credentials of the country.  He added that the accusations levied against Onnoghen are clear cases of corruption involving the highest judicial personnel in the country.

    Read Also: Rights abuses: NHRC sets up panel to probe SARS

    Hon Wale Arogundade, Director General of Babajide Olushola Sanwo-Olu Ambassadors (BOSA) remarked that there have been great achievements since President Buhari took charge of the country in areas such as, Agriculture, rail development, attitudinal changes of the youths and the fight against corruption. “Buhari is putting the country in the right direction, so we believe that giving him a second chance is very important. We want people to go out and vote for Buhari”.

    The President of the Liberty Movement of Nigeria, Edward Olusola Ajayi   said given the score card of the president as against the 16 unproductive years of the PDP, it was a modest contribution of the 135 civil society and community based organizations to take a position to work in line with the candidate that has proven worthy to be re-elected.

     

  • Ex-Nigeria Airways workers recount 14-year ordeal of non-payment of benefits

    Some pensioners and ex-workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways have given accounts of the trauma, untold hardship they went through for more than 14 years they were retrenched without payment of their pensions and benefits.

    The pensioners and ex-workers who exclusively spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos said they went through hardship before the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari came to the rescue.

    The former workers and pensioners had organised a rally on Friday in Lagos to show appreciation to the President for approving the payment of their pension arrears and other benefits after 14 years of waiting.

    The over 5000 Nigeria airways workers, who said they had been “abandoned, humiliated and frustrated by previous administrations’’, undertook a solidarity procession in Ikeja to drum support for the re-election bid of Buhari.

    More than 15 years after the liquidation of Nigeria Airways by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s government, the present administration approved N45.3 billion for the settlement of the retirement benefits of the defunct airline workers.

    The supervisory Minister of Finance, Hajia Zainab Ahmed, in September 2018 directed the release of N22.68 billion to the workers and most of them had been paid.

    “Following the long delay in payment of the retirement benefits after the liquidation of Nigeria Airways Ltd., many of the ex-workers went through hardship

    “This unfortunate situation cannot be allowed to continue under a responsible administration,’’ the minister had said.

    Alhaji Mustapha Ogunribisan, one of the retrenched workers recalled how they were forcefully ejected out of their office by the Police in 2006.

    “After the liquidation in 2006, we were intimidated. The then Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun ordered his boys to come and chase us out of the office in the course of which we were tear gassed.

    “Some of us died then while many were wounded since then we had been struggling to get our entitlements paid.’’

    Ogunribisan, who said he was employed in October 1976, and deployed to the Motor Transport Division of Engineering Department of the Nigeria Airways, recalled what led to the liquidation of the company.

    “They claimed that the management mismanaged money and the company was no longer viable.

    “A panel was set up by President Obasanjo which at the end of the day found out that the allegations were false. A 12-volume report of the panel was submitted to the then President.

    “Obasanjo, however, said there was no going back on his decision to liquidate Nigeria Airways.

    He continued: “the present Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el Rufai, who was then the chairman of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) intervened in the matter.

    “The governor said the former President should allow him to run Nigeria Airways for one year without collecting any money from government but Obasanjo insisted that he had made up his mind to liquidate the company’’.

    Ogunribisan said they had been on the trenches fighting to get their entitlements paid during which no fewer than 800 of them died.

    He said they, however, got a temporary reprieve when the late former President Umaru Yar’Adua came in and they took their matter before him.

    “Within seven days, Yar’Adua ordered that we should be paid our salary arrears which was implemented then.

    “The late President later set up a panel to look into our gratuity and other benefits but unfortunately he fell sick and in the process he died,’’ he said.

    Ogunribusan said, though, Goodluck Jonathan, the then Vice President, who succeeded Yar’Adu was privy to the efforts and plans of his predecessor over their matter, he, nevertheless, abandoned them to suffer.

    “We wrote series of letters to former President Jonathan reminding him of what his predecessor did but he said it was a forgotten issue.

    “As at that time, many of us had died. We were holding series of meetings, consulting prominent Nigerian citizens including Emirs over our issue, but Jonathan never yielded,’’ he said.

    Buhari raised the hope of the ex-workers when he approved the N45bn after an audit by the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA), a department in the Ministry of Finance.

    Ogunribisan said by fulfilling his promise and paying the first tranche of their entitlements, Buhari had restored their long gone hope and brought smile to their faces.

    “The sickness I was suffering from had been taken care of and I am healthy now. I was even able to travel to the U.S. for medical check-up over my failing health,’’ he said

    Ogunribisan said in appreciation of what the President had done for them, he was mobilising members of his immediate and extended family to vote for his re-election come Feb. 16.

    For Comrade Kolawole Ayinla, 68 years old, he said the 14 years of non-payment of his entitlements was “hell on earth’’.

    “I was employed by Nigeria Airways on Oct. 12, 1976 and I worked in the Engineering Dept.

    “The then government of Obasanjo treated us mercilessly. He has no respect for Nigerian citizens, the way we were humiliated was not pleasing.

    “For many years I was admitted in Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and there was no money to pay for drugs and the hospital bills.

    “I have to move with my family to a ghetto in a suburb of Lagos for us to survive.

    “It was a worse of experience before President Muhammadu Buhari came to the rescue. The payment of the money had changed my situation.’’

    Andrew Ahilemen who broke into tears while narrating his ordeal said he joined Nigeria Airways in 1980 and his employment was abruptly terminated with the company’s liquidation.

    “My experience after this had been so bad, I could not take care of myself and feed my family. I could not pay my children’s school fees.

    “We served this country with our sweat and we were thrown out and treated like refugees.

    “We were humiliated out of the office, but I am grateful to President Buhari for what he has done and I am very happy now.

    “I am happy because with the part of my entitlement that has been paid now, I can take care of myself, feed my family and send my children back to school,’’ he said.

    More pathetic is the case of Mr Jacob Loremikan who left the service of the Nigeria Airways in 1977 but suffered Parkinson’s disease when his pension was stopped after the liquidation.

    The Octogenarian, who could barely talk said he went through hardship until Buhari came to restore his hope and bring back his long gone smiles

    Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has restated the Buhari administration’s commitment to the well being and welfare of Nigerians.

    Mohammed who spoke at the rally by the ex-workers said that Buhari’s commitment to the well being of the masses led him to end the 14-year wait and suffering of the 5,996 former staff of the defunct national career.

    He also assured that come Feb. 16, Buhari’s commitment to the well being and welfare of Nigerians would earn him re-election

    “It is not just the former staff of Nigeria Airways who have benefitted from the people-oriented policy of this administration.

    “Former Biafran Policemen, former workers of the Delta Steel Company, Aladja, and former NITEL workers have also seen their years of suffering and neglect come to an end, thanks to Buhari.

    “For the more than 800 deceased ex-staff of Nigeria Airways, their next of kin will also receive the entitlements due to them,’’ he said.

    Mohammed congratulated the ex-workers that were still alive and thanked God for keeping them to reap the rewards of their labour.

    He also thanked them for the event which he said was a show of appreciation to the President for what he had done.

  • Obasanjo campaigns for Buhari’s re-election in U.S

    The son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Olujonwo Obasanjo has taken his campaign for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States.

    Obasanjo, who is the President of Buhari Youth Organisation (BYO), said he was in the United States to solicit support for Buhari’s re-election among Nigerian diasporas and other members of the international community.

    He explained that his support for the re-election of the president was borne out of Buhari’s focus on youth empowerment and securing the future of the country for the Nigerian youth.

    Obasanjo said while in the United States, he participated in several activities aimed at projecting the administration.

    “I participated at the United Nations International Day for Education, promoted by the Nigerian Government through the Nigerian Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

    “Education is one of the tenets of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, focusing on youth empowerment, youth participation and securing a better future for our generation and the generations to come.

    “I also participated at the Nigerian American Business Forum where I met with many Nigerian professionals and their American counterparts. I went to Atlanta to visit our sister organisations there and to inaugurate many of our organisations.

    “I also went to Detroit where we inaugurated some of the organisations. We also have many Buhari support organisations in New York as well.

    “We have Buharists in the United States and all over the world. So I am here to encourage them and to support them in every way we can,” he said.

    He said his support for Buhari was because he stood out among other presidential candidates because of his determination to bequeath a secured future for the youth of Nigeria.

    He said Buhari had opened up the space for the youth of the country to participate politically and economically.

    “Recently, there was the women and youth campaign wing that was inaugurated by the president, which showed that he wants to ensure that the youth and the women have a strong voice in his re-election campaign.

    Read also: Retired Generals back Buhari for second term

    “We believe that by doing that, Mr president wants us to be part of his administration going forward. Mr president is one who has made us believe again in our country, who has made us proud of our country.

    “At the international stage, we are not being looked at as a pariah nation. So I believe for Nigerians at home and Nigerians in the diaspora, they have seen that Mr president is the best candidate deserving of their supporr.

    Mr Haruna Madisca, Organising Secretary of The Buhari Youth Organisation, also said Buhari was a man of integrity with the fear of God that Nigeria needed at this time.

    He berated the plan by Buhari’s main challenger, Atiku Abubakar, to sell the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) if elected, saying the plan was questionable, adding, Buhari had provided enabling environment for small businesses to thrive.

    Madisca, who is President, Goron Oil and Gas Limited, said through the NNPC Renewable Energy Department, there is a $25 million investment in cassava in Kogi that would be producing 40,000 litres of bio-ethanol per day.

    “The investment start-up on a turnkey basis is $25 million. The plant will employ over 2,500 people on a full time basis,” he said, adding such investment was at risk should NNPC be sold to private investors. (NAN)

  • Obasanjo meets Ogun politicians, warns against further violence

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday met with leaders of political parties and security chiefs in Ogun State, following the spiralling circus of violence during campaigns in the state and the attendant risks to lives and properties.

    This came about 48 hours after the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Dapo Abiodun and running mate, Engr. Noumot Oyedele – Salako, reportedly escaped alleged assassination plot when people suspected to be political thugs blocked their access way in Mokola area of Abeokuta, leading to a clash between the thugs and supporters of Abiodun, who battled to shield him from harm.

    Obasanjo who met with some leaders of political parties at the Green Legacy Resort, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library(OOPL) Abeokuta, warned them not to heat up the politics of the state but to strive towards ensuring peaceful polls before and during the general elections.

    In attendance at the two – hours long private meeting were the quartet of the Action Democratic Party(ADP), African Democratic Congress(ADC), All Progressives Congress(APC) and the Allied Peoples Movement(APM).

    The State Chairman of ADP  Chief Wale Egunleti, who addressed reporters on behalf of the political parties present at the meeting, disclosed that the former Head of States, called orderly and peaceful campaign in the state ahead of the Presidential and governorship elections slated for February 16th and March 2nd respectively.

    Read Also: Again, Obasanjo knocks Buhari over leadership style

    “Our father (Obasanjo) has called the political parties for a meeting to shun any act of thuggery, fighting, and any form of violence during and after the elections.

    “We want to serve the people and we must lead by example. Therefore, we have been warned and advised to keep the peace in Ogun for the benefit of all,” Egunleti said.