President Jonathan To Visit Obasanjo Today In Abeokuta

Barring any last minute change in plan, President Goodluck
Jonathan will on Monday (today), visit former President
Olusegun Obasanjo in his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence.
The meeting will come less than 48hours after Obasanjo made
a surprise appearance at the wedding service of Jonathan’s
foster daughter, Inebharapu, at the National Christian Centre,
Abuja. Obasanjo and Jonathan have not been seen together in public events lately, especially since the public presentation of his book, My Watch, which is critical of the President among

others. The former President had last Monday said Nigeria was facing economic problems due to the failure of the present administration to plan for a rainy day.

He told eminent women leaders from the South-West, who
visited him at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State,
that the nation’s reserves which as of 2007 stood at $67bn
had been depleted by the Federal Government.
Our correspondent learnton Sunday that Jonathan would use
the opportunity of his visit to Abeokuta for his campaign rally
to visit Obasanjo who had withdrawn from active participation
in the activities of the Peoples Democratic Party.
A top government official who is aware of the arrangement
told THE PUNCH that Jonathan had been scheduled to visit
the former president.
He however said he did not have the details of whether the
meeting would hold before the rally or after.
“I don’t have the details, but I can inform you authoritatively
that the two of them are scheduled to meet tomorrow,” he
said.
Jonathan may use the opportunity of the meeting to appeal to
Obasanjo to have a rethink on his (Jonathan’s) bid for re-
election in February.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential
Campaign Organisation has called on the presidential
candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to caution his supporters in order
to promote a peaceful election.
The Director of Media and Publicity of the Organisation, Chief
Femi Fani-Kayode, made the call in a statement issued on
Sunday in Abuja against the backdrop of the violence
unleashed on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign buses
at Zololo Junction along Bauchi Road in Jos North North
Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday.
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