Meanwhile, Obasanjo said that if there was anybody else who is special and indisposed that he has to see, he would go see the person.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday said he does not have a preferred candidate for the upcoming 2023 presidential election.
“I don’t have a special candidate, as far as the 2023 presidential election is concerned,” Obasanjo told reporters shortly after he paid a visit to former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.) in Minna.
Obasanjo’s comments followed his recent meetings with Bola Tinubu in Abeokuta and Peter Obi in London.
“I have come to see my brother who was a bit indisposed and when he was abroad I had wanted to visit him, and the day I arrived in London to visit him was the day he left,” Obasanjo continued.
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“So, I said, ‘well, since I could not see him in London, I will come to see him in Nigeria’. And so, that is what I have come to do.
“He is special in a way and he was indisposed, so I had to come and see him.”
Abubakar was in June admitted for an undisclosed ailment in a London hospital. His family made his health public only after he was discharged.
Meanwhile, Obasanjo said that if there was anybody else who is special and indisposed that he has to see, he would go see the person.
“I am still strong enough,” he said.
Obasanjo had also visited another former Nigerian leader, Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), whom he held a closed-door meeting with.