Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo; former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; and other prominent persons, held a crucial meeting in Lagos yesterday, to perfect strategies for the coming presidential election.
The meeting came on the heels of the call by the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation on the General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd)-led National Peace Committee, the United Nations and all world leaders to call President Muhammadu Buhari to order, insisting that there is no way free and fair elections could be guaranteed when his niece, Mrs. Amina Zakari, is heading the collation of presidential election results.
The over three-hour meeting, which held behind closed-door at the Lekki Phase 1 Estate residence of renowned Southwest leader and Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, had prominent politicians in attendance.
According to Thisday, the meeting was a strategy towards 2019 and how to give the country a fresh direction.
“The discussion is not about Southwest alone; it was a broad-based political arrangement that covers every part of Nigeria. It was a national thing. The basic concern is about how to give Nigeria a new lease of life by enthroning a leadership that will give the citizenry better lives.”
Obasanjo has been the arrowhead among those opposed to the second term ambition of Buhari and has maintained a cordial relationship with some leaders across the country to actualise his determination.
Apart from Obasanjo and Atiku, others present at the meeting were Chief Adebanjo, Saraki, Chief Olabode George, former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke; National Publicity Secretary, Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin; and former university teacher and Yoruba leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye.