2023 President: What Obasanjo Said After Meeting With Tinubu, Atiku, Obi Will Shock You

BY QUADRI SALIU

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said he has no preferred candidate among Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu in the 2023 presidential race.

Obasanjo created the room for Nigerians to believe he has a preferred candidate when last week met with Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in London.

After that meeting, there were speculations that the Olusegun Obasanjo was pushing the candidacy of Peter Obi.

However, speaking in Minna, Niger State capital on Sunday when he paid a visit to former Head of State, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, Obasanjo said he had a national agenda, not a preferred candidate.

He said, “I don’t have a special candidate; I have a national agenda. I came to see my brother who has been a little indisposed. I had plans to visit him when he was still in London, but the day I arrived London was the day he returned home.

“So that is why I decided to come and see him at home. He is very special so I had to come.”

Abdulsalami handed over power to the civilian administration of Obasanjo in 1999.