What I told Bola Tinubu when he visited me in Abeokuta – Obasanjo

Obasanjo said he told Tinubu that he had added two phrases ‘Emilokan’ and ‘Olule’ to Yoruba vocabulary

Ilesanmi AdekanbiAugust 20, 2022

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Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has disclosed a discussion he had with Bola Tinubu, the 2023 presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when he visited him recently in Abeokuta.

Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday visited the former President at his Penthouse, located within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, One Mosan, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

It was the first time Tinubu would be meeting the ex-President since he picked the presidential ticket on June 8.

Tinubu was accompanied by two former governors of the state, Chief Olusegun Osoba and Otunba Gbenga Daniel, billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, and former interim national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, among others.

Both Obasanjo and Tinubu refused to address the media after their closed-door meeting but it is speculated to be connected to the 2023 presidential election.

The ex-president who spoke at the inauguration of a 300-man planning committee on the installation of the new Olowu of Owu, Oba Saka Matemilola, said he told Tinubu that he had added two phrases recently used by the former Lagos Governor to Yoruba vocabularies.

He said: “We now have two vocabularies in the Yoruba dictionary, ‘Emilokan’ and ‘Olule’. These two vocabularies are now popularly used”.

“I asked Bola and he laughed. I said whether the vocabularies are good or bad, we have started using them.”

Recall that Tinubu had during an outburst prior to the APC primary election used the phrases while revealing that there was no way President Muhammadu Buhari would have emerged winner of the 2015 presidential election without his support.