Former President of Nigeria and African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa region, Olusegun Obasanjo; President of the Union of the Comoros and Chairperson of the African Union, Azali Assoumani; President of the Republic of Ghana and the African Union Champion of Financial Institutions, Nana Akufo-Addo; and the President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, have …

The West African Elders’ Forum (WAEF) has deployed a pre-election fact-finding mission led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to Sierra Leone, ahead of the country’s general elections scheduled for June 2023. In a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, the Communications Officer of Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF), the host of WAEF, Wealth Ominabo said the fact-finding mission also had former President …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denounced what he called Igbophobia and urged Nigerians to fight evil with good. There were concerns about an ethnic revolt when Igbo voters in Lagos were singled out during the presidential and governorship elections. Obasanjo, who spoke in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on the occasion of the Governor Chukwuma Soludo administration’s one-year anniversary, advised …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has disclosed that his intimate relationship with the National Assembly members when he was Nigeria’s vice-president stopped former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term bid. He said the relationship enabled him and some National Assembly members to stop Obasanjo’s third term agenda, adding that he is eager to re-ignite …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who said that the Baptist Boys High School (BBHS), Abeokuta made him who he has become by positioning him in good stead, noted that the secondary school would have had two old boys as ex-presidents, “if not for Nigeria’s bad belle” that truncated the victory of the acclaimed winner, of 12 June 1993 presidential election, the …