Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said this at
his hilltop residence in Abeokuta the Ogun State
capital when women from the All Progressives
Congress (APC), led by the wives of their
presidential and vice presidential candidates,
Mrs Aishat Buhari and Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, paid
him a visit.
Mrs Buhari, during the visit, lauded the former
president for viewing national issues without
sentiments, saying “Baba exercises his prowess
as a father, as a former Head of State of Nigeria
twice, very few Nigerians have the opportunity
to rule the country twice, we are here today to
show our appreciation for the way you handle
things as a statesman and a nationalist”.
Obasanjo seized the opportunity to express his
displeasure with the manner politicians have
gone about their campaigns.
“You women, you have a role to play, and I mean
that, when things are going wrong, if women
don’t act, things will continue to go wrong
because you have ability to act. The men who
invariably make things to go wrong are your
fathers, your husbands, your sons, you sons-in-
laws.
“With your husbands, you can have pillow talk
but when things are going wrong and you do not
talk or act, you will also be the greatest victim at
the end of the day because it will have effect on
your children and would have a direct effect on
you and all of us,” he said.
He expressed hope that “this will be the last
time in the history of this country that we will
have this type of campaign of hatred or division”.
Chief Obasanjo also insisted that no government
that is installed unconstitutionally would be
accepted by Nigerians, making reference to
rumours of an Interim Government and military
take-over.
“The Intentional community will not condone it,
particularly African Union where we have a
situation, we have said and it is part and parcel
of the constituting act of the African Union, any
government that is brought about not on the
basis of the constitution will not be accepted and
tolerated and will not be a member of the AU
until that government is dismantled,” he added.
He also expressed hope that the March 28
elections, and the one coming after that would
“provide the right lessons to learn from”.
“Unfortunately, issues that should have been the
main item of our campaign were not discussed.
We have serious issues of security, economy,
unemployment, youth unemployment
infrastructure, etc. These are issues among
others that I believe campaign of those who are
interested in the present and the future of this
country should be directed at.
“How are we going to get them? What are we
going to do? Not trivial issues of certificate, no
certificate, not trivial issues of when somebody
is talking about someone and whether one is a
Nigerian or not.”


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coming from a man that could not conduct a free fair and credible election he should be. ashamed