REVEALED: THE INTRIGUES OF APC, TINUBU'S VISIT TO OBASANJO!

How Obasanjo Almost Missed Out On APC Visit

“Following the leakage of his letter to the president and the many grave allegations that it contained, Baba (Obasanjo) has been under some tremendous pressure,” one of his trusted aides said. “The pressure multiplied when Iyabo (his daughter) purportedly wrote another letter disparaging him and calling him names. So, the intended visit by the leadership of the APC was more than timely. He went the extra mile to make the visit happen and to host them. The good publicity will do him a world of good.” Continue below!

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In the days leading to the much publicized and long-awaited meeting between the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Former President of Nigeria, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, the host started to think his would-be guests had grown cold feet and would shelf the meeting, sources close to the events have revealed.

In his anxiety, following the two recently published open letters that involved him, the immediate past chairman of the PDP began to make frantic calls to his contacts within the APC, or going them to make the trip. In fact, he is said to have made numerous reservations in the best hotels he could find in Abeokuta, Ogun state, in a bid to make his guests as comfortable as he possibly could. He wanted to play the perfect host. Sources say he needed the visit to go perfectly.

“Following the leakage of his letter to the president and the many grave allegations that it contained, Baba (Obasanjo) has been under some tremendous pressure,” one of his trusted aides said. “The pressure multiplied when Iyabo (his daughter) purportedly wrote another letter disparaging him and calling him names. So, the intended visit by the leadership of the APC was more than timely. He went the extra mile to make the visit happen and to host them. The good publicity will do him a world of good.”

The retired general’s instincts were correct; not every member of the APC leadership was enthusiastic about the visit to Obasanjo’s Hilltop Mansion. While a number of them felt the former president still holds a few political aces up his sleeves, others felt he was too much of an unpredictable character to tangle with at this point in the party’s lifetime. One group felt it would be a mockery of Tinubu’s legacy of having beat Obasanjo in the political game in the past to now go seeking the ex-president’s attention. It took the direct intervention of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to convince his colleagues that the meeting was a worthy venture.

“Buhari called Tinubu and told him he had nothing to prove anymore,” said a source. “He told him it would seem petty to leave Obasanjo out when other former heads of state and leaders had been visited. Only then was the final decision taken to visit Abeokuta.

The delegation was led by the party’s Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, former Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari; former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu; former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai; former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode; former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ((EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; and the Interim National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

Others leaders of the party in attendance were governors of Ogun, Oyo, Imo, Kwara, Adamawa and Rivers states, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, Chief Rochas Okorocha, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, Mallam Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso and Honourable Rotimi Amaechi, respectively.

They arrived late in the afternoon of Saturday. After deliberating with their host, who rolled out the carpet in an lovely fashion, the guests left at about 8:40pm.

When asked why the APC leadership chose to visit their old adversary, Tinubu said, “Our visit was not to woo him, but to tap from his wealth of experience. He has gathered a lot of wisdom and we need that wisdom, not necessarily to our partition politics, but to draw from his experiences as an elder statesman.”

Several of the governors followed Tinubu to his home in Lagos for further meetings which lasted until the wee hours of the morning.

“I believe our aim was achieved at the meeting,” our APC source said. “We went there to inform Obasanjo of our aims and objectives and he receive us warmly. He even gave us valuable advise. The meeting couldn’t have bone better.”

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