Obasanjo cautions Gbajabiamila, others on Tinubu’s endorsement claim

On Saturday, Bola Tinubu’s supporters were cautioned by former president Olusegun Obasanjo over rumours that he had endorsed Bola Tinubu for president of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Last Wednesday, the former governor of Lagos State paid Obasanjo a visit at his home in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The encounter between the two leaders raised prospects for Tinubu’s win in the 2023 election, according to Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who was part of the APC candidate team to the ex-home. president’s He made this statement on Thursday.

However, the former military leader criticised what he called an unauthorised report of the conversation with the ex-governor at the meeting in a statement released by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi.

He added that statements credited to Tinubu’s supporters about the meeting were unhelpful.

The statement read: “The former president said the discussion during the visit was more ‘brotherly than political,’ and at the request of Bola Tinubu, Chief Obasanjo agreed to no statement from either side.

“Those claiming to be insiders at the meeting issuing statements on the discussion and those crediting to me statements I had not made are enemies of the visitor and are not doing the visit any good.”