Punch
Ahead of the 2023 presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, held a closed-door meeting with three PDP governors in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Obasanjo met with Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State and a former Cross River Governor, Donald Duke.
Our correspondent gathered that the governors arrived at Obasanjo’s Residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library at 6:40 pm.
The meeting lasted for about an hour.
Wike said he led the PDP leaders to inform and seek the support of the former president on his presidential ambition.
Speaking with newsmen shortly after the meeting, Obasanjo admitted that Wike informed him of his presidential bid.
Obasanjo described the country as a complex country but not difficult to manage if a “courageous leader is elected”.
He said “of course, Governor Nyesom Wike as a presidential aspirant with Governor of Oyo, Governor of Benue, former Governor of Cross River and former Deputy Senate President and former Minister to express to me the desire and of course I made the point that I have always made that, I have ceased to be a partisan politician, I don’t belong to any political party, but if politics is the welfare of the people, I cannot cease to be a politician because I must always seek the welfare of the people.
