2023: No true Nigerian will vote for Tinubu, others -Obasanjo

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that no true Nigerian will vote for Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, and others.

The former president emphasised that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, deserved the votes of all patriotic Nigerians, noting that only the unpatriotic ones would vote for his opponents.

Obasanjo, while calling on Nigerians to support Obi, said the reason was that he possesses good character, which his fellow contestants lack.

Obasanjo spoke on Thursday in an interactive session organised by the Experiential Leadership in Africa (TEL-Africa) in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

Stating while declaring his support for Obi against Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Obasanjo said “I will be punished by God if I know what is right and I did not put it where it should be.”

He further stressed that he had earlier mentioned in his letter that Obi has an edge, taking everything together; stating that “I take a character, I take track record, I take vision and I take what you see in this man as a child of God.”

Obasanjo stated during his New Year open letter to the youth that he knows the major candidates a little bit and can say a bit about them as their mentor.

“Why should you as a Nigerian vote for somebody with the character, the reputation, the life of which you do not want your children to be?” Obasanjo asked, stressing that “it is either you are wicked, you are unpatriotic or you are a bad citizen of this country, and then if this is who you are, what do you want God to do with you, and that is the way I see it,” he explained.