LAGOS APRIL 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has for the second time since Buhari’s victory, met, this time in Abuja.
It is not yet clear what the agenda of the meeting was, but speculations are that Obasanjo will love to maintain prominence by yielding influence in the incoming regime.
Already, the former President had reportedly suggested that Buhari appoints former Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo as his Minister of finance.
Buhari himself had told newsmen that Obasanjo is right about now the only Nigerian alive who has led this country for eleven years, maintaining that he would definitely tap from Obasanjo’s pool of experience.
Meanwhile, there were reports that the president-elect came to the Federal State Capital to formally present to Nigerians names of members of the transition committee at a party event to be organised in Abuja.
The ex-president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo met with the winner of the presidential poll General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) as he arrived in Abuja yesterday, April 20.
The two, Obasanjo and Buhari, had earlier met in Lagos, where they had a closed-door meeting after General’s victory in the March 28 presidential poll.
The former president recently publicly endorsed Buhari for the presidency after falling out with the incumbent and outgoing president of Nigeria. But later Obasanjo denied supporting Buhari as he said he just wanted a strong leader for Nigeria.