Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, met with prominent Yoruba leaders in what was believed to be part of moves to forge a common front with the Yoruba leaders ahead of the 2019 presidential election.
The meeting held at the house of a prominent Yoruba leader and Afenifere chieftain, Pa Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos, had in attendance other leaders of the pan – Yoruba socio-cultural organization.
They included Prof. Akin Mabogunje, Mrs Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Mr. Supo Shonibare and Mr. Yinka Odumakin.
Others are Otunba Gbenga Daniel, and Olusegun Mimiko, former Ogun and Ondo state governors respectively.
Although details of the meeting was yet to be known as at press time, the Yoruba leaders Obasanjo met Saturday are not different from those that teamed up against Muhammadu Buhari’s election in 2015 in favour then sitting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Most of those Yoruba leaders in the build up to 2015 elections scattered into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP) with both groups wielding ‘restructuring’ via implication of 2014 Confab Report as reason they were voting for Jonathan. In the end, they failed all together.
The same groups are being lobbied by Obasanjo, who tore his PDP membership card in a well publicised card-tearing press conference towards the last general elections, are again wielding the slogan of ‘restructuring’ as the joker they want to sell to Nigerians for them to lead Buhari in 2019 and vote for an Obasanjo coalition.
