Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, distanced
himself from reports of him backing the Southeast to produce Nigeria’s
President in 2023.
Reports had it that Obasanjo said the Southeast would would
bring a lot to the table if allowed to produce the country’s president.
Obasanjo was quoted to have made the remark when he received
a Presidential aspirant, Mao Ohuabunwa, in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
However, Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the
former President was misrepresented.
In a statement he issued, Akinyemi berated Ohuabunwa for
being behind the misrepresentation.
He accused the Presidential aspirant of using a wrong
approach in the bid to achieve his ambition.
The statement reads: “If that was the way the presidential
aspirant wanted to approach his ambition; such was a wrong way.
“He came here and the former President received him as a
gentleman and in the spirit of his 85th birthday celebrations only for him to
go and put words into his mouth. Baba is not that sort of man and if that is
the way he wants to fulfil his ambition that is a wrong way.”
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