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The Aare Onakakanfo (Generalisimo) of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, on Tuesday, said he will never reconcile with former President Olusegun Obasanjo as his guadian angel will not forgive him if he did. Aare Adams, while speaking at a press conference at his Omole residence in Lagos, lambasted Obasanjo for casting aspersion on his character.
*Aare Gani Adams, Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland
The media had reported that the former president and Aare Adams had reconciled their 15 year old disagreement when both met at Pa Ayo Adebanjo’s residence in Lagos. The Vanguard new however reported that Obasanjo dismissed the reconciliation saying he has no fight to warrant reconciliation with Adams.
“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.”
However, when the media met Aare Adam in his Omole residence in Ikeja on Tuesday, he said there was a need to respond to the former president.
“Well, I think Baba Obasanjo has the right to say there was no reconciliation on that day but the only thing I don’t like in his statement is him condemning my character. I don’t know what he (Obasanjo) meant about my character but all I know is that we don’t share the same character. I know Obasanjo is not a progressive element whether when he was in office or outside the office.
“We cannot share the same character because I cannot toe the same line with someone whom we don’t share the same character. “On whether I requested for a visit, I didn’t make such a request to his house. I have never requested to meet Obasanjo. The meeting that was held was as a result of the request of Pa Ayo Adebanjo. I initially refused but because of my respect for Pa Adebanjo, I went for the meeting and we had a robust discussion but I was shocked when he (Obasanjo) issued such a statement.
*Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo
“Ordinarily, I would not have reacted to it but president Obasanjo is an international figure and for him to talk about my character in a negative way, if I do not react, it may affect my family and me; and the only thing I have in life is my name. I do not toy with anyone that will assassinate my character.
“So, I may agree with him that we don’t share the same character as a progressive but he is not a progressive. “I didn’t request to meet with him and the meeting we had in Pa Adebanjo’s house in Lekki was as a result of persuasion from Afenifere and Yoruba leaders.
When asked if there is any hope for reconciliation now on in the future, he said:
“That has been foreclosed, I will never go to him for any reconciliation because if he had not remarked about my character, I would have honoured his invitation. His (Obasanjo’s) press secretary called me the next day and asked whether when I would be coming over to see Baba (Obasanjo), I told him to forget it. If I go to him (Obasanjo) for any meeting, my guiding angel will be annoyed with me.”
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