See What Obasanjo Told Buhari Yesterday When He Visited Him In Abeokuta

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.