Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed why he has been avoiding the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams.
Obasanjo, while reacting to the reported reconciliation between him and Gani Adams, stating that he had no quarrel with Adams that would have warranted reconciliation.
It was gathered that a meeting was said to have been held behind closed door at the Lekki residence of the Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, with Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, Basorun Segun Sanni, and Akin Osuntokun, and others in attendance on Wednesday.
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Speaking shortly after the meeting, Aare Adams said the meeting was a robust deliberation with particular interest on the state of the nation, including insecurity, restructuring and unity among others.
But in his reaction, Chief Obasanjo said that he had no quarrel with Aare Adams that would have warranted reconciliation.
Obasanjo, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, said: “My attention has been drawn to some publications reporting an acclaimed reconciliation between Gani Adams and myself at the residence of Chief Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos.
“It is true that I paid a personal visit to Chief Ayo Adebanjo at his residence in Lekki Phase 1 on December 2, 2020 and I met Gani Adams there.
“I have no quarrel with Gani Adams, but for his past way of life which was not in accord with my standards and principles. I have in the past, both in government and out of government, refused to grant Gani’s request to visit me.”
The former president, in 2005, had ordered the arrest and detention of Adams and the late Dr. Frederick Fasehun over the crisis that destroyed property in parts of Lagos State.
