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Tinubu, Obasanjo in Secret Meeting in Abeokuta, Ooni, Osoba, Akande, OGD, Dapo in Attendance
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday.
It is unclear what the agenda of the meeting was, but it is speculated that it could be about the presidential bid of Tinubu.
Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives; Dapo Abidoun, Ogun state governor; Bisi Akande, former interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Adeyeye Enitan, the Ooni of Ife, were among those present at the meeting.
Scores of supporters of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State stormed the residence of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta as the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu visited the former President.
Tinubu arrived at the Penthouse of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Oke- Mosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, in his chopper at about 1:09pm in company of some party leaders.
He was received by Governor Dapo Abiodun, former Governor Gbenga Daniel, his predecessor, Segun Osoba, and other Ogun State government functionaries.
The meeting was believed to be in connection with ambition of Tinubu in the coming elections.
The duo had not been seen together since 2015 when he escorted the then APC candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari to Obasanjo’s residence.
He was also at the 78th birthday of the former President held at Abeokuta in March, 2015.
The two of them have since kept their distances as Obasanjo withdrew his support for Buhari and the APC, which he supported to power by tearing his card as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party