#2015: Tinubu Consults Obasanjo Over APC Presidential Candidature

Few weeks to the national convention of All Progressives Congress (APC)  the national leader of the Party , Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his hill top residence in Abeokuta.

Tinubu who said he met with Obasanjo on issues that had to do with Presidential aspirants in the Party added, "we need to consult. equally, we take observation of  his former boys who are running for presidency in our party, what he can say about them.


He opined, "We cannot know it all, we need to consult".

When pressed further, The former Lagos Governor said "have gone too far to tell you why we are here, I have been nice enough to tell you. I would not tell you what the discussion is about but you are privilege to have heard why I am here, but the end discussion, I will not tell you your assumption will be yours".

Tinubu who was accompanied to Former President Obasanjo home by Eng Segun Oni, Former Oyo State Governor, Rashid Ladoja spoke on Nigeria at 54, adding, we are still an invalid baby in the incubator, that is the truth, we are blessed with human capital, we have not develop it, every good education state, today it has not been developed.

"Today we are been relegated from a high class of oxford, Cambridge and other best universities in the world, we have been relegated to 3rd class. You have information technology that has taken over the rest of the world".

He said, "infrastructure that will make a distance between Ibadan and lagos faster, enjoyable and tourist  facilities, what is our pride. is not available, pipe borne water is not available, we have army of unemployed graduates, stampede, maiming and injuring themselves to find their daily need".

He said " at age,54, we have not grown up, we are not been sincere with the people at 54, that is why you found a lot of people seeking salvation all over in the churches, that is the truth.

"The leaders, we don't have good leaders, d leaders are clueless, the followers we appear sadistic,we like being punished,because if you work for an honest system,I do not see a president will removed subsidy on onshore and win an election in the second week,to me ,there is need for a common sense revolution, common sense revolution of security over haul,army will use to respect the people, common sense revolution in job creation, better of condition of living of all of you, journalism is a highly respected profession,well paid outside the country,  everything you owed,everything you labour for is your own, except the human labour is important.