Elections 2015: 'I Reserve Further Comments Until Winner Emerges' – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said he has reserved further comment regarding this month’s general election until a winner emerges on the 14th of this month. He made the comment at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, while meeting with some royal fathers from Egba Traditional Council who were attending a seminar on how to generate wealth from waste.

The initiator of the Waste to Wealth Seminar, Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, the Towulade of Akinale, in a chat with journalists said the programme was to avail royal fathers the opportunity to learn new ways of generating wealth so that they in turn will educate their subjects back home.

Obasanjo said he has made enough comments regarding the polls both in speech and body language, adding “if anybody is still looking to me for comment, the person probably has not been around for sometime now. I have spoken enough. Our efforts start February 14. We should go and vote that day and vote right. I will talk after the election.”

Obasanjo said Nigeria is so blessed in both human and material resources that it only  takes the right people and the political will to change things positively. He lamented the situation where teachers and civil servants are being owed salaries for up to six months, specifically citing the example of Benue State.