Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says the “past ways” of the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland Gani Adams did not match his standards and principles.
Obasanjo met Adams on Wednesday during a visit to a chieftain of Afenifere Ayo Adebanjo in Lekki, Lagos.
The former president had refused to grant Adams’ request to visit him when he was president and after he left the office.
In a statement by his spokesman Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo said the meeting was not a reconciliatory one.
“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,” he said.
“I have no quarrel with Gani Adams, but for his past way of life which was not in accord with my standard 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.”
