After releasing his explosive bomb letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC days ago, the former Nigeria’s president Olusegun Obasanjo meets face-to-face for the first time with Buhari in Addis Ababa. In the damming letter bomb Obasanjo requested that Buhari should not to seek re-election in 2019.
It was all smiles when the two leaders met briefly on Sunday at the ongoing African Union Summit taking place at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. According to information reaching us reported that Obasanjo first went round to exchange pleasantries with other African leaders attending the summit before looking out for Buhari among the crowd to also have a word with him.
It was also gathered that on sighting Buhari at the venue, Obasanjo, who ruled Nigeria as a democratically elected President between 1999 and 2007, approached the President and shook hands with him.
State House Correspondences at the venue observed that the brief pleasantries between the two leader became a sensation inside the Nelson Mandela Hall as photojournalists made frantic efforts to capture the moment.
Mr. Obasanjo had stirred up controversies in Nigeria when he released a 13-page statement accusing Buhari of not living up to expectations and therefore should not seek re-election in 2019. The Federal Government subsequently issued a seven-page statement in reply to Obasanjo’s criticism of the istration of its principal, Buhari.
