Obasanjo was first Head of State from 1976 to 1979. After his prison ordeal, he was elected Nigeria’s President and was in power from 1999 to 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
#RevolutionNow convener, Comrade Omoyele Sowore, has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his Monday’s visit to the wife of President Bola Tinubu, Remi, in Lagos State.
SaharaReporters reported earlier on Tuesday that Obasanjo visited the First Lady in Lagos to celebrate the Eid-el-Kabir.
Busola Kukoyi, a media aide to the First Lady, had revealed the visit in a post shared on X.
“Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the First Lady of the Federal of Nigeria Senator Oluremi Tinubu after receiving the former President who came felicitating on the Sallah Celebration on Monday, 17th June,” Kukoyi wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
This comes after Obasanjo endorsed Peter Obi for president in 2023 and shunned Tinubu’s inauguration ceremony.
Obasanjo has also criticised Tinubu’s policies, calling them “necessary but wrongly implemented”.
But reacting to the visit, Sowore, a former presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), berated the former president and referred to him as ‘Baba Gbajue’ (con artist)
Sowore who took to his X account to react to the report of the visit wrote: “Baba Gbajue visits his real clients! People Deceiving People since 1960!”
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SaharaReporters reported on May 26 that Obasanjo said that President Tinubu’s policies on fuel subsidy removal and exchange rates had adversely affected the Nigerian economy.
Obasanjo, who spoke via a statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in his assessment of the performance of the current government in the past one year, said the effects of the policies which were “wrongly implemented are pushing foreign investors away from Nigeria”.
He argued that “the present administration has not found the right way to handle the economy to engender confidence and trust for investors to start trooping in”.
Obasanjo was first Head of State from 1976 to 1979. After his prison ordeal, he was elected Nigeria’s President and was in power from 1999 to 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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