Pastor Adeboye Bishop Oyedepo Meet Obasanjo Over Jonathan....Details of The Abeokuta Parley.
Contrary
to initial reports the Former President Olusegun Obasanjo,shunned
yesterday's proposed visit of President Goodluck Jonathan, after he was
said to have sneaked out of Abeokuta.www.urbanlifeng.com can divulge to
you that,last night,President Jonathan, top PDP members,and religious
leaders, met with Chief Obasanjo, at his Abeokuta, Hilltop mansion in
Abeokuta,the Ogun State capital, in an attempt to seek the latter’s
support for his re-election bid.Sources said the meeting was also put in
place to find a common ground between the two leaders who have been
having some disagreements lately.
Former president Obasanjo has in recent times heavily criticised the
policies and programmes of the Jonathan-led administration.Obasanjo
blamed the present economic woes facing the nation on the depletion of
the Excess Crude Account and the external reserves blaming it on alleged
bad leadership of the present government, saying “the country does not
deserve the current state it has found itself”.
He said that his administration left $25 billion in the excess crude
accounts in 2007 which was shored up to about $35 billion by the
Yar’Adua’s administration, while he left $45 billion in external
reserve, adding that these funds had been mismanaged by the present
administration.Last night’s meeting, which started at about 9pm, ended
shortly before 10pm when those at the meeting drove out of the
ex-president’s residence in a convoy of nine cars.At the meeting,sources
revealed,that Christian leaders – Redeemed Christian Church of God
(RCCG) General Overseer Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye and Winners
Chapel’s Bishop David Oyedepo.It was learnt that the church leaders
attended the meeting at Obasanjo’s instance. He, according to sources,
insisted when the President proposed the meeting that the religious
leaders must witness the discussion.The former president, it was
gathered, said the president did not honour their previous agreements,
hence the need for high profile witnesses.
Other leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including National
Chairman Adamu
Mu’azu and former PDP chairman Senator Ahmadu Ali, were also believed to
have attended the meeting.Attempts by Dr. Jonathan to woo the ex-
President, who is his political godfather, included a meeting last month
with Obasanjo by some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, led by
Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio.In that team were Jigawa State
Governor Sule Lamido, Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke and Niger
State Governor Babangida Aliyu.Although neither Jonathan, who passed the
night in Abeokuta, to enable him continue his campaign in the Southwest
today – in Osogbo and Ado Ekiti – and tomorrow in Akure – nor Chief
Obasanjo, was available to speak to anxious reporters after the meeting,
sources said Obasanjo planned to use the talk as an avenue to ask the
president some salientquestions, most of which he had publicly raised,
before the religious leaders.
These included the security of the country, the weeding out of his
loyalists from their positions in the PDP, the matter concerning the
SouthWest organising and mobilisation committee of the party, Buruji
Kashamu, who the former president said he could not accept as his
leader, among others.Earlier the President,at his campaign rally,held at
the MKO Abiola,Stadium, begged Ogun electorate to give him their
mandate the second time.
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