Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has alleged
that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo was
aware of the health issues of his successor, the
late Umaru Yar’Adua before the 2007 presidential
election.

Fayose claimed that Obasanjo insisted on Yar’Adua
despite his health challenge because he wanted a
stooge he can control as President.

The Ekiti State Governor was the head of Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP’s National Committee,
which searched for the party’s presidential
candidate in the 2007 election.

Speaking with The Interview Magazine, Fayose
said Yar’Adua told him that he was not healthy
enough to become president.

The governor said most members of the
committee, who were governors at the time,
wanted ex-Kaduna State governor, Ahmed Makarfi
as the party’s presidential candidate.

Fayose said, “As a loyal Obasanjo boy then, I went
to Obasanjo and told him that this committee that
was set up, everybody seemed to prefer Makarfi
except me and one other person and we were in
the minority.

“Five out of seven governors wanted Makarfi. Then
Obasanjo pointedly told me that Makarfi was too
smart and would not be easily controlled by him.”

The governor claimed that after Obasanjo’s alleged
third term ambition failed, the ex-President asked
him to go and “sound Yar’Adua out on the ticket.”

Quoting the firmer President, Fayose said, “Don’t
tell him I asked you to come. You just psyche him
up.”

Speaking further, Fayose said,
“I acted as directed by Obasanjo, but the man told
me expressly that he was not well enough to aspire
to be Nigeria’s president, that the job would be too
rigorous for him.

“After much persuasion, he then told me the only
condition under which he might consider running
was if all stakeholders would sign up and reach an
agreement to pick him as the consensus candidate
because he did not want any hassle.

“I went to tell Baba (Obasanjo) what Yar’Adua told
me. On the issue of Yar’Adua’s ill health, I
remember Obasanjo told me, ‘Don’t worry about
his sickness; government money dey to manage
his ill health.”’

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And you are just telling us this because you are no longer his "boy".

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