Barely five days after resigning as the Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday paid an unscheduled visit to the Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the Government House in Benin.
Obasanjo, who was accompanied on the visit by his wife, held a closed- door meeting with Oshiomhole for about 30 minutes at the official residence of the governor.
But Obasanjo and Oshiomhole refused to disclose why they met and the outcome of the meeting.
Our sources at the meeting however disclosed that the meeting might not be unconnected with the state of the nation especially as there are talks about alignment and realignment across the country over the 2015 presidential race.
When journalists sought to know Obasanjo’s mission to the Government House, he claimed that he was in the state to meet with the governor, assuring the journalists that the outcome of the meeting would be made public at the appropriate time.
Obasanjo said: “I am not here for any statement. If the governor is around and I’m in Edo State for a private visit, I should be here to say hello.
Thank you very much.”
On whether he was in the state to endorse Oshiomhole for a second term and the outcome of the private meeting, the ex-president simply said: “Another day I will come, I will talk, and the governor will talk.”
Meanwhile, Oshiomhole has promised that he will continue to provide good governance to the people of the state since he has been elected to cater for their well being.
The governor, who stated this during an interactive session with journalists after Obasanjo’s visit, said he is humbled and elated by the kind of support, encouragement and endorsement he has been receiving both within and outside the state.
He added that he would not be distracted by politics of ethnicity which he said the PDP in the state is creating. He therefore promised to continue to offer dividends of democracy to the people.
