Speaker Causes Rift Between Tinubu And Obasanjo

<h4>Speaker Causes Rift Between Tinubu And Obasanjo<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that as Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been full of joy over the meeting he had with former President Olusegun Obasanjo&comma; he seems to have rejoiced too early as the Speaker&comma; House of Representatives&comma; Rt&period; Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila has caused a rift in the rather fragile and emerging relationship&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Without doubt&comma; last week’s meeting with Obasanjo was a mile stone for Tinubu’s 2023 aspiration&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Part of the agreement between Obasanjo and Tinubu was non disclosure of the deliberations of the meeting&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However&comma; Speaker Gbajabiamila&comma; in a meeting with his constituents in Surulere disclosed what transpired during the meeting&comma; assuring victory for Tinubu&comma; come 2023&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Speaker&comma; who was present at the closed-door meeting&comma; said from what he heard there&comma; Mr Tinubu’s presidency was almost a reality&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said Mr Obasanjo made encouraging statements about Mr Tinubu’s aspiration and even prayed for the APC presidential candidate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When we were going to Obasanjo’s house&comma; we were eight&comma; including Asiwaju Tinubu and me&semi; we didn’t want many people to know about the meeting&period; So&comma; we were to meet Obasanjo and five others from his side&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But when we eventually got there&comma; we met something pleasantly shocking&colon; a mammoth crowd of our supporters were already at the former president’s house waiting for us&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; Obasanjo told Asiwaju Tinubu to pick three people from his side and that he would pick three from his side to meet behind closed doors&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; I&comma; Chief Osoba and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;premiumtimesng&period;com&sol;">Chief Akande<&sol;a> and Asiwaju went from our side&period; My people&comma; what I heard there&comma; what Obasanjo said&comma; the victory of Asiwaju is assured&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Obasanjo spoke at length and we were all happy&period; He embraced our candidate like a brother&comma; gave him a pat on the back&comma; and prayed for him copiously”&comma; he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Reacting to Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila’s disclosure&comma; Obasanjo denied comments credited to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;those claiming to be supporters” of the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate&comma; Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu&comma; on the outcome of his recent meeting with him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He described such comments as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unhelpful”&comma; saying the meeting was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;more brotherly” than &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;political&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Obasanjo in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media&comma; Kehinde Akinyemi&comma; in Abeokuta&comma; on Saturday&comma; expressed dissatisfaction with the unauthorized report of the discussion at his meeting with Tinubu&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said both parties agreed to a no statement from either side at the end of the meeting&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Those claiming to be insiders at the meeting issuing statement on the discussion and those crediting to me statement I had not made are enemies of the visitor and are not doing the visit any good&comma;” said Obasanjo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;