Former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; and governor-elect in Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, held separate closed-door meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday .<\/p>\n
Our correspondent gathered that Atiku arrived at Obasanjo Presidential Library around 1pm and spent one hour with his former boss.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo\u2019s media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, confirmed the meeting.<\/p>\n
Akinyemi, however, described the meeting as private.<\/p>\n
However, a source at the meeting told our correspondent that Atiku came to seek further advice from Obasanjo on the next step to take after his loss at the poll.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Makinde and Obasanjo held another closed-door meeting two hours after Atiku had left.<\/p>\n
Makinde was reported to have arrived Obasanjo\u2019s residence around 4pm and went straight to the inner room of the former President.<\/p>\n
The duo later emerged from the closed-door meeting and held another meeting with some chieftains of the PDP, including the former deputy chairman (South) of the party, Chief Olabode George.<\/p>\n
According to a statement by Obasanjo\u2019s media aide, his boss warned the governor-elect in Oyo State against running a selfish government.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease, run a government that will be make them ask, \u2018Where has this type of government been all this years in Oyo State?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must give them something positive; you must give them good democracy and not that one my younger brothers will call pocketing democracy,\u201d the statement quoted Obasanjo as saying.<\/p>\n
The governor-elect reportedly said the visit was to appreciate and seek wisdom from the elder statesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former vice president and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; and governor-elect in Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, held separate closed-door meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday . Our correspondent gathered that Atiku arrived at Obasanjo Presidential Library around 1pm and spent one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,316,479,65,197],"class_list":["post-6532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-atiku","tag-obasanjo","tag-pdp","tag-states"],"yoast_head":"\n