26th March, 2023
Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has expressed gratitude to the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for what he called “quiet time with the former president”.
His appreciation is contained in a signed tweet posted on his verified Twitter page on Sunday.
The tweet read, “I am very grateful for the quiet time with the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the Anambra airport yesterday. We exchanged views on the state of play and state of the nation. -PO
This comes after they attended the one-year celebration of Governor Charles Soludo in office.
At the event, Obasanjo, who is a staunch supporter of the former Anambra governor, said “While in Government, Somebody came to me and said, ‘Wow! You have ruined the economy of Nigeria.’ I said, ‘How?’ He said, ‘An Igbo woman, Minister of Finance; an Igbo man, Governor of the Central Bank? Then you have clearly completed the task of ruining the economy of Nigeria.
“I don’t know why he said that, except for what I can call Igbophobia, and I don’t take that lightly. It remains, it persists. But when you have that type of thing that was said to me and the type of thing that you know is going on, as I have just called it, what do we do with it?
“I believe we have to go back to the scripture, which says we must conquer evil with good. And whoever you are, wherever people are afraid of you, you must make yourself friendly to those who’re afraid of you and earn their friendship by being good to them.