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The primary face-to-face assembly of the duo since Bola Ahmed Tinubu took workplace on Might 29, 2023, was hosted by Governor Hope Uzodimma.
They had been his company on the governor’s second-term inauguration.
The 2 knew that they might meet. The organisers knew they might even be on the “high desk.” They made a sitting association that put Senate President Godswill Akpabio in between them.
Eyes had been on the 2 August guests, who at all times have an axe to grind over nothing however Nigeria.
Protocol was strictly adhered to.
Each had been decked in white. President Bola Tinubu was resplendent in buba, with a crimson Igbo cap to match; former President Olusegun Obasanjo was decked in agbada, with a blue cap.
Tinubu beamed the hilarious smiles of a metropolis boy as he stretched his proper hand to OBJ, as the previous president is fondly known as. The Basic, a grasp of protocol, stretched out his two palms to the President and Commander-in-Chief, beaming onerous smiles.
The 2 adversaries checked out one another within the face.
What was happening of their minds?
It appeared Tinubu was saying to Obasanjo: “Baba, that is me, the ex-governor you tried to cease from getting a second time period; the person you fought in his first time period by seizing his state’s native authorities funds.”
Obasanjo did greater than that. His administration stopped the unbiased energy undertaking. In his e-book, ‘My Watch,’ Obasanjo additionally made unprintable statements in regards to the former Lagos governor.
Obasanjo’s residual objective in life was to cease, if he may, Tinubu from attending to the presidency. He was by no means a fan of Asiwaju. Throughout final yr’s ballot, the previous president exercised his proper to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) commonplace bearer.
It was one second of actuality. Obasanjo embraced that actuality in Owerri that regardless of his notion about BAT, he triumphed on the ballot by the grace of democratic majority progress.
The Ota farmer smiled and muttered maybe what solely he may really decode. OBJ, with each palms, grabbed Tinubu’s hand, along with his accustomed wry smile. Who can decipher the ideas of man, besides his creator?
Obasanjo has his views about Tinubu. These opinions could not have modified. It appeared the ex-president had a lot to say, however couldn’t utter the peculiar phrases of contempt.
He could have muttered in his thoughts: “This idan boy, ultimately, regardless of all odds, made it to energy on the centre.”
In one other twist to the story, OBJ instantly stood whereas Tinubu was nonetheless studying his speech through the ceremony on the Dan Anyiam Stadium, and took his exit from the occasion.
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