Olusegun Obasanjo, a former president of Nigeria, maintained that Peter Obi, the Labour Party candidate, deserved the support of all patriotic Nigerians and that only the unpatriotic would support his opponents.
Obasanjo urged Nigerians to vote for Obi and explained that this was because, unlike his rivals, Obi had good character.
Obasanjo spoke on Thursday in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, at an interactive session hosted by the Experiential Leadership in Africa (TEL-Africa).
Obasanjo remarked, “I will be condemned by God if I knew what is right and I did not put it where it should be,” when asked why he supported Obi over Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He explained that he stated in his letter that Obi has an advantage, saying that “I take character, I take track record, I take vision, and I take what you see in this man as a child of God.” He added that he takes everything into account.
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He recalled that in his open letter to young people for the new year, he had stated that as their mentor and someone who knows some of the key contenders, he may speak a little something about them.
Why should you, as a Nigerian, vote for someone whose reputation, life, and character you don’t want for your own children? What do you want God to do with you if this is who you are, Obasanjo questioned, emphasising that “it is either you are wicked, you are unpatriotic, or you are truly, really a bad citizen of this country”?
