Obasanjo denies claim he endorsed South-East for 2023 presidency

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has debunked a claim that he endorsed the South-East for the 2023 presidency.

An online report (not FirstNews) had claimed that Obasanjo declared his support for the South-East to produce the next president when received Mao Ohuabunwa, a presidential aspirant, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday.

The online report quoted Obasanjo saying that a president of the South-East extraction could bring a lot to the table if elected.

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But responding in a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Saturday, the former president denied the report.

He said, “If that was the way the presidential aspirant wanted to approach his ambition, such was a wrong way.

“He came here and the former president received him as a gentleman and in the spirit of his 85th birthday celebrations only for him to go and put words into his mouth. Baba is not that sort of man and if that is the way he wants to fulfill his ambition, that is a wrong way.”