Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disproved that endorsed Igbo presidency ahead of the 2023 elections.
Obasanjo’s rebuttal was in reaction to a report quoting him to have backed the region to produce the next president.
The report stated that Obasanjo made the endorsement while receiving a presidential aspirant, Mr. Mao Ohuabunwa, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday.
But in his reaction, the former president who spoke through his media aide, Mr. Kehinde Akinyemi, accused Ohuabunwna of being the brain behind the report.
He stated that the aspirant) put words into his mouth.
“If that was the way the presidential aspirant wanted to approach his ambition, such was the wrong way.
“He came here and the former president received him as a gentleman and in the spirit of his 85th birthday celebrations only for him to go and put words into his mouth. Baba is not that sort of man and if that is the way he wants to fulfill his ambition, that is a wrong way,” Akinyemi said in a statement.
