Olusegun Obasanjo has said he never had a quarrel with the Aare Ona Kakanfo, Gani Adams to warrant reconciliation.
Jomog News Nigeria reports that the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has given reasons for his refusal to allow the national leader of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Gani Adams, to visit him.
Obasanjo has said that the past way of life of the Are Ona Kankafo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams was not in line with his personal standards and principles.
He said he never had a quarrel with the Aare Ona Kakanfo, Gani Adams to warrant reconciliation.
The former President said this while reacting to claims of reconciliation between Gani Adams and himself in Lagos on Wednesday.
It was reported on Wednesday that Obasanjo finally had reconciled with Adams at the residence of Chief Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos.
Mr Obasanjo said both as a president and as a private citizen, he has refused to grant audience to Mr Adams, who doubles as the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba, a warlord of Yoruba race in South West Nigeria.
But in a statement signed by Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi said Obasanjo declared that he had visited Chief Ayo Adebanjo, where he met Gani Adams but was not on reconciliatory mission.
According to Obasanjo, “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.
“I have no quarrel with Gani Adams, but for his past way of life which was not in accord with my standards 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,” he was quoted as having said.
Obasanjo and Adams are prominent Yoruba leaders but Mr Adam’s faction of the self-determination group had a series of confrontations against some of the policies of Mr Obasanjo-led administration between 1999 and 2007.
Aare Adams has however promised to respond to the statement appropriately.
