Obasanjo Denies Having "Quarrel" With Gani Adams

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied having any "quarrel" with the head of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Gani Adams.

The former president clarified this in a statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, during Obasanjo's visit to the residence of Ayo Adebanjo, where he met Gani Adams.

He said, “I have no quarrel with Gani Adams, but for his past way of life which was not in accord with my standards and principles.  I have in the past, both in government and out of government, refused to grant Gani’s request to visit me.

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“If at all anybody feels I have a quarrel with him or her that needs reconciliation, such reconciliation will, no doubt, take place in my residence in Abeokuta only.”

The full statement read

FORMER PRESIDENT OBASANJO DENIES RECONCILING WITH GANI ADAMS, DENIES RIFT WITH OPC LEADER

A former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says his attention has been drawn to some publication reporting an acclaimed reconciliation between him and Oodua Peoples Congress leader, Gani Adams at the residence of Chief Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos tod­ay.

The former president through a press statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi says that the former president paid a personal visit to Chief Ayo Adebanjo at his residence in Lekki Phase 1 on December 2, 2020 and he met Gani Adams there. 

“I have no quarrel with Gani Adams, but for his past way of life which was not in accord with my standards and principles.  I have in the past, both in government and out of government, refused to grant Gani’s request to visit me” he said

“If at all anybody feels I have a quarrel with him or her that needs reconciliation, such reconciliation will, no doubt, take place in my residence in Abeokuta only” he concluded

KehindeAkinyemi­

Special Assistant on ­Media

December 2, 2020