Read what Obasanjo said to Buhari

The APC’s presidential candidate, his vice and a whole
team paid Obasanjo a courtesy visit yesterday as the
team were in Ogun State for an APC rally. Obasanjo
who said he wasn’t sure if Buhari was going to stop by
or not, however instructed his people to suspend every
engagement they have outside the state, in case he
decides to stop by.
Obasanjo who maintained he is still
in PDP was delighted to welcome Buhari into his home.
His words;
“But let me in a special way welcome Muhammadu.
Our paths have crossed on a number of occasions and
when I was told you are going to be coming to Ogun
State, I wasn’t sure whether you will come here or not.
But I told my boys -I said well, whatever programme we
have outside Ogun State for today, let us shelve it just
in case Muhammadu and his party and his team decide
to call here.
“You will remember when you decided to contest you
wrote me a letter this time around. And I replied your
letter. When you became the flag bearer of your party,
you wrote me another letter. And I replied your second
letter because I believe that you have honoured me by
writing and I should of course reciprocate by also
responding to your letter.
“I have always said that party or no party, what is
paramount for me is Nigeria. And that will remain
paramount as far as I am concerned. There is no
political party in the world that is made up of saints
and our own political parties in Nigeria will be no
exception. All the political parties have saints and devils
among them. But because what you are campaigning for
is the votes of saints and devils to be able to win an
election, and I wish you well.”
“I thought that I should say it today. I will just beg all
of you who are contesting to add one to it; you
mentioned economy, you mentioned corruption, and you
mentioned security. All of you, I will beg of you, to add
infrastructure. It’s very important. You may take it as
part of economy but I will take infrastructure as special
and give it special attention.
“For all political parties that are trying to woo us to
vote for them in the coming election; let’s go away from
red-herring, let’s go away from trivialities, let’s face
issues and tell the people of this country what we will
do to deal with these crying problems of our country.
Having said that, I will also say that while a party must
be microcosm of a nation – and in a nation you will
have near saints, devils, rapists, armed robbers and a
good party must have all this in them.
“But what matters is that when that party has to go into
government, it must look for men and women of
character. And we have them in all parties; we have
them throughout the nooks and crannies of this
country. Again, I wish you well as you go around. I
thank you for this visit. I cannot end without reminding
you, even though I saw some old faces, but some of us
will remain firm at least at the ward level where I am
very active in my party,” Mr Obasanjo said.

Culled from naijaloaded