By our reporter| Elder statesman and former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to reports that he has reconciled with the OPC leader and Aaare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams.
The duo were reported to have met at the residence of Ayo Adebanjo a leader of Afenifere, the a south-west socio-cultural group with other leaders of the group said to be in attendance.
However, in a statement on Wednesday, Obasanjo who denied the report of his reconciation with Adams explained that both in and outside government, he has rejected the request of Adams to visit him.
The statement his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the visit to Adebanjo was not for reconciliation.
“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,” Obasanjo was quoted to have said.
“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.
“If at all anybody feels I have a quarrel with him or her that needs reconciliation, such reconciliation will, no doubt, take place in my residence in Abeokuta only.”
Obasanjo and Adams fell out during the first term of the ex-president following the violence unleashed in Lagos by the O’dua Peoples Congress (OPC) which Adams coordinated.
Adams was eventually arrested by the police while OPC was proscribed.
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