Barring any last minute change in plan,
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday (today), visit former
President Olusegun Obasanjo in his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence. The meeting will come less than 48hours
after Obasanjo made a surprise appearance at the wedding service of
Jonathan’s foster daughter, Inebharapu, at the National Christian
Centre, Abuja.
Obasanjo and Jonathan have not been seen
together in public events lately, especially since the public
presentation of his book, My Watch, which is critical of the President among others.
The former President had last Monday
said Nigeria was facing economic problems due to the failure of the
present administration to plan for a rainy day.
He told eminent women leaders from the
South-West, who visited him at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun
State, that the nation’s reserves which as of 2007 stood at $67bn had
been depleted by the Federal Government.
Our correspondent learnton Sunday that
Jonathan would use the opportunity of his visit to Abeokuta for his
campaign rally to visit Obasanjo who had withdrawn from active
participation in the activities of the Peoples Democratic Party.
A top government official who is aware
of the arrangement told THE PUNCH that Jonathan had been scheduled to
visit the former president.
Jonathan may use the opportunity of the
meeting to appeal to Obasanjo to have a rethink on his (Jonathan’s) bid
for re-election in February.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential Campaign Organisation has called on the presidential
candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.), to caution his supporters in order to promote a peaceful
election.
The Director of Media and Publicity of
the Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made the call in a statement
issued on Sunday in Abuja against the backdrop of the violence unleashed
on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign buses at Zololo Junction
along Bauchi Road in Jos North North Local Government Area of Plateau
State on Saturday.
SOURCE: Punchng