Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to go out in
thousands next Saturday and vote in the governorship and state House
of Assembly elections as they did in the March 28 election, which
produced the President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), of
the All Progressives Congress.
He said this on Saturday during a surprise visit to Itoku Market in
Abeokuta South Local Government Area, while interacting with market
men and women in the market.
Obasanjo who put on a blue adire, moved from the adire sellers section
to herbs sellers section, among others, relating with the traders and
felicitating with them in the spirit of Easter season while traders
began to chant "Sai Baba Obasanjo, Sai Amosun."
Obasanjo's response to what advice he would give to the traders ahead
of the April 11 election, Obasanjo said, "They should do exactly what
they did last Saturday."
He said he had come to felicitate with the traders in the spirit of
the Easter season.
Obasanjo, who spoke in Yoruba, said, "Since I came back from Abuja, I
have not come here to say hello to you. This is my community. As a
member of the community, I want to know what's going on and what's
happening in the community."
The ex-President had retired from partisan politics earlier this year
when he supervised the tearing of his Peoples Democratic Party
membership card publicly.
--DailyTimes
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