Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bode George on Monday said there was no rift between him and Jimi Agbaje, the party’s governorship candidate in Lagos.
Speaking at a colloquium titled “2019: South West speaks”, George said the belief in some quarters that he and Mr Agbaje were not in good terms was untrue.
He, however, admitted that they had differences in the past on certain political issues, but that they had since risen above that and made up.
Mr George said he had since forgotten whatever happened between the two of them as an elder in the party and in the interest of PDP.
The former PDP deputy chairman said Agbaje and his running mate Haleemat Busari had visited him in his residence where he particularly advised Mrs Busari on how to navigate the murky waters of politics successfully.
“There is no rift between Agbaje and me. All that happened in the past is gone. The Yoruba say if you continue to nurse grudges with people, you will not have anybody to call your friend. The issues of the past belong to the past, there is no rift between us,” he said.
George, while delivering a keynote address at the colloquium, stressed the need for Nigerians to work together in the interest of the country.
He said that no nation attained greatness when people saw differences and identified themselves more with tribes than with the nation.
George said there was the need for Nigerians to shun politics of hatred and sectarian malice that would impede unity and peaceful co-existence.
