Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has insisted that the
candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, deserves the votes of all patriotic
Nigerians, saying only the unpatriotic ones would vote for his opponents.
While calling on Nigerians to support Obi, Obasanjo said the
reason was because he possesses good characters, which his fellow contestants
lack.
Obasanjo spoke on Thursday while featuring in an interactive
session organised by the Experiential Leadership in Africa (TEL-Africa) in
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Speaking on why he declared his support for Obi against Bola
Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Obasanjo said “I will be punished by God if I know what
is right and I did not put it where it should be.”
He clarified that he mentioned in his letter that Obi has an
edge, taking everything together; stating that “I take character, I take track
record, I take vision and I take what you see in this man as a child of God.”
He recalled that during his New Year open letter to the
youth, he had said he knows the major candidates a little bit and can say a bit
about them as their mentor.
“Why should you as a Nigerian vote for somebody with the
character, the reputation, the life of which you do not want your own children
to be?” Obasanjo asked, stressing that “it is either you are wicked, you are
unpatriotic or you are really, really a bad citizen of this country and then if
this is who you are, what do you want God to do with you, and that is the way I
see it.”
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