The former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has denied that he has any plans to mess up the elections in 2023.
Some news stories say that he wrote to the United Kingdom and asked them to put off the elections so that Nigerians could decide the outcome.
According to reports, Obasanjo warned the UK government against interfering and added that things would not go as usual.
According to reports, the former head of state remembered that in 2002, the British government tried to have him removed.
He apparently claimed that although the European countries had intended to instal a Fulani man they could control, he had defeated them.
Obasanjo is said to have told the UK that the Fulani man they hired is to blame for all of Nigeria’s problems.
His media assistant’s reaction on Thursday evening refuted the alleged letter.
“The trending news on the supposed scheme by the previous president to influence the electoral body in the presidential election of February 25 is wholly incorrect,” he said.
The spokeswoman continued, “There has been no other public or private letter written to anybody” except for the letters to adolescents on January 1 and to Prof. Toyin Falola on his 70th birthday.
For the tenth time, the reading public is reminded that only a statement signed by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo or by his media assistant, Kehinde Akinyemi, can be released to the media.
The statement said, “If necessary, checks can be done to make sure that these documents are real before they are made public, to avoid any embarrassment.”
