24.7 CAMPUS RTV REPORTS, JANUARY 12TH, 2015 JONATHAN MEETS OBASANJO TODAY Barring any last minute change in plan, President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday (today), visit former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his Abeokuta, Ogun State residence. The meeting will come less than 48hours after Obasanjo made a surprise appearance at the wedding service of Jonathan’s foster daughter, Inebharapu, at the National Christian Centre, Abuja. Obasanjo and Jonathan have not been seen together in public events lately, especially since the public presentation of his book, My Watch, which is critical of the President among others. The former President had last Monday said Nigeria was facing economic problems due to the failure of the present administration to plan for a rainy day. He told eminent women leaders from the South- West, who visited him at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, that the nation’s reserves which as of 2007 stood at $67bn had been depleted by the Federal Government. Our correspondent learnton Sunday that Jonathan would use the opportunity of his visit to Abeokuta for his campaign rally to visit Obasanjo who had withdrawn from active participation in the activities of the Peoples Democratic Party. A top government official who is aware of the arrangement our corresspondent that Jonathan had been scheduled to visit the former president. He however said he did not have the details of whether the meeting would hold before the rally or after. “I don’t have the details, but I can inform you authoritatively that the two of them are scheduled to meet tomorrow,” he said. Jonathan may use the opportunity of the meeting to appeal to Obasanjo to have a rethink on his (Jonathan’s) bid for re-election in February. Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation has called on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to caution his supporters in order to promote a peaceful election. The Director of Media and Publicity of the Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made the call in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja against the backdrop of the violence unleashed on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign buses at Zololo Junction along Bauchi Road in Jos North North Local Government Area of Plateau State on Saturday.
24.7 CAMPUS RTV REPORTS, JANUARY 12TH, 2015
ReplyDeleteJONATHAN MEETS OBASANJO TODAY
Barring any last minute change in plan, President
Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday (today), visit
former President Olusegun Obasanjo in his
Abeokuta, Ogun State residence.
The meeting will come less than 48hours after
Obasanjo made a surprise appearance at the
wedding service of Jonathan’s foster daughter,
Inebharapu, at the National Christian Centre,
Abuja.
Obasanjo and Jonathan have not been seen
together in public events lately, especially since
the public presentation of his book, My Watch,
which is critical of the President among others.
The former President had last Monday said
Nigeria was facing economic problems due to
the failure of the present administration to plan
for a rainy day.
He told eminent women leaders from the South-
West, who visited him at his Hilltop residence in
Abeokuta, Ogun State, that the nation’s reserves
which as of 2007 stood at $67bn had been
depleted by the Federal Government.
Our correspondent learnton Sunday that
Jonathan would use the opportunity of his visit
to Abeokuta for his campaign rally to visit
Obasanjo who had withdrawn from active
participation in the activities of the Peoples
Democratic Party.
A top government official who is aware of the
arrangement our corresspondent that Jonathan had
been scheduled to visit the former president.
He however said he did not have the details of
whether the meeting would hold before the rally
or after.
“I don’t have the details, but I can inform you
authoritatively that the two of them are
scheduled to meet tomorrow,” he said.
Jonathan may use the opportunity of the
meeting to appeal to Obasanjo to have a rethink
on his (Jonathan’s) bid for re-election in
February.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential Campaign Organisation has called on
the presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),
to caution his supporters in order to promote a
peaceful election.
The Director of Media and Publicity of the
Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made the
call in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja
against the backdrop of the violence unleashed
on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign
buses at Zololo Junction along Bauchi Road in
Jos North North Local Government Area of
Plateau State on Saturday.