{"id":149571,"date":"2025-02-10T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:02:52","slug":"why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku","title":{"rendered":"Why I visited Obasanjo \u2013 Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has explained why he visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku had arrived the Olusegun Obasanjo presidential library, Abeokuta, at about 12:36 pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate was accompanied by former governor of Cross River, Liyel Imoke, former Sokoto governor, Aminu Tambuwal, and Sokoto South senator, Abdul Ningi.<\/p>\n<p>The closed door meeting lasted about 1 hour 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>When asked details of the meeting, Atiku told newsmen that it was just a courtesy visit and declined further comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a courtesy visit please, I am not going to talk about politics please,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Atiku was the Vice-President to Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Atiku hosted former Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, at his residence in Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has explained why he visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday. Atiku had arrived the Olusegun Obasanjo presidential library, Abeokuta, at about 12:36 pm on Monday. The former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate was accompanied by former governor of Cross River, Liyel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":149570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[316,254,479],"class_list":["post-149571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-atiku","tag-nigeria","tag-obasanjo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why I visited Obasanjo \u2013 Atiku - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has explained why he visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun S ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why I visited Obasanjo \u2013 Atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has explained why he visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun S ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-10T18:25:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-15T22:02:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739203266.304311.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1008\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"756\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Why I visited Obasanjo \u2013 Atiku\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-10T18:25:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-15T22:02:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku\"},\"wordCount\":155,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1739203266.304311.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obasanjo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/why-i-visited-obasanjo-atiku\",\"name\":\"Why I visited Obasanjo \u2013 Atiku - 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