What Obasanjo told Jonathan at the secret meeting

Despite the hide and seek game initially in the day, a closed-door meeting later held between President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital at about 8.30 p.m, yesterday.

Reports obtained by www.odogwublog.com informed that the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and the Founder, Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, were part of the meeting as requested by Obasanjo.

Obasanjo, recently came down hard on Jonathan accusing his administration of squandering $55 billion crude oil savings and reserves. Jonathan had in turn promised to expose what former leaders and heads of state failed to do while in office that stunted the country’s socio-economic growth. He later added that some leaders were behaving like motor park touts, a comment that was perceived to be aimed at Obasanjo.

The meeting could not be held in the afternoon because President Jonathan snubbed Obasanjo as alleged even as the former president avoided the president by leaving his house where the meeting would have been held on hearing that Jonathan had arrived in Abeokuta.

The former President left his palatial Hilltop building in Abeokuta, immediately Jonathan arrived the state capital.

Obasanjo who was driven out in his black SUV and one security Hilux van, shunned his main entrance and made use of his private gate.

A source close to Obasanjo’s Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta had earlier said that President Jonathan was not in Obasanjo’s itinerary for the day.

He also hinted that Obasanjo jetted out around 2: 59 p.m few minutes after the helicopter that flew the President to the state, touched down.

Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) who had earlier besieged Obasanjo’s Hilltop mansion as early as 6a.m in anticipation of President Jonathan’s arrival also left the place at exactly 3.10p.m when it became obvious that Jonathan was not coming.

Jonathan, however, arrived at the M.K.O Stadium in Abeokuta at exactly 3.50p.m and headed straight to the state box from where he later moved out to acknowledge cheers from the crowd who had thronged the stadium venue of the campaign as early as 7. 30a.m.

Asked why President Jonathan ‘dodged’ Obasanjo and refused to visit him despite being in Abeokua, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, said: “Dodge Obasanjo? How? The president just left the stadium now and he is in the presidential lodge in Abeokuta, resting.”

The meeting, last night, however ended at 9.53 pm without official statement from both parties.

Earlier at the Abeokuta rally, President Jonathan promised to create additional eight million jobs for Nigerian youths in the next four years, if re-elected.

While referring to Gen. Mohammadu’s Buhari’s assertion that if elected, he would ensure that all guilty corrupt persons are jailed, Jonathan said: “It is my prayer that a time will come in Nigeria that there will be no single prison in the country.”

He then told his audience: “You have a choice to vote for those who will build more prisons for you or my administration which will build more schools for you.”