by Kolapo Olapoju

It is believed that the supposed ‘peace meeting’ between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan ended in a stalemate as both parties reportedly failed to come to an accord.

The president and members of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees met with Obasanjo for about three hours in Abeokuta on Monday, January 12, in an attempt to settle, once and for all, the disagreements between the two leaders.

However, reports say that the meeting, which had in attendance Pastor Adebayo and Pastor Oyedepo, ended in futility, as a common ground could not be reached by both parties, and the PDP, is said to be uninterested in pushing for a second attempt at fostering peace between Obasanjo and Jonathan.

A source, who was present at the meeting, told Vanguard that Obasanjo did not have the intention of making peace with the president, but only acquiseced to the request for the meeting, as a sign of respect to the office of the President.

According to the source, Obasanjo requested the two influential clerics to be present as witnesses at the meeting to drive home the point that Jonathan was the cause of their rift.

Obasanjo is also believed to be still be smarting from last Sunday’s statement in which Jonathan described some elder statesmen and senior citizens as behaving like ‘motor park touts’.

The source said: “It is true that Obasanjo invited the two clergymen to witness the meeting which he grudgingly accepted to host because of the respect he has for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He did not want to turn the president and his entourage down since they requested to see him in his house as part of their rally in the state.”

“But the truth of the matter is that Baba has not shifted grounds on any issue since he feels that Jonathan has not been fair to him by not adhering to any of the previous agreements reached with him.”

“What really irked Baba is the reference by Jonathan to some Nigerian elder statesmen as behaving as ‘motor park touts’ a day before begging him to grant him audience in Abeokuta. The man really feels insulted by such unfortunate outburst from the president of a country.”

“There was no need to enter into any peace deal with Jonathan because similar deals done in the past only resulted in more attacks by him and his aides on Baba only for them to come begging for forgiveness once it is close to election,” the sources added.

Source http://ynaija.com/

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