Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed how late South African President, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu counselled him into running for Presidency in 1999.

Speaking during a church service to mark his 80th birthday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the Ibogun-born ex-President disclosed that both Mandela and Tutu advised him to heed the call of his people to lead them.


Obasanjo said he sought the advice of the two South African leaders shortly after he was released from prison for offence he knew nothing about.

According to Obasanjo, “When the pressure to contest started shortly after my release from prison from offence I knew nothing about, two persons came to mind—Madiba and Tutu.

“I went to South Africa and I met Mandela then, he said I should follow my instinct. I also went to Desmond Tutu and he said that I wanted to offend God. If your people want you to serve God why are you saying no?”

He went on: “I returned to Nigeria and one day by accident while opening my Bible, I opened the Book of Esther. Today all is history, but in all this, I will say that God has been impartial to me. Because where I was born, it is unimaginable that somebody will come out from the place and become all these.”
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