Don’t Repeat Your Statement: Obasanjo Gets Serious Warning From Former Minister

A former minister of transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, on Wednesday, issued a stiff warning to ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo over his statement on Yoruba leadership.
Obasanjo had written in his book, titled, “My Watch: Political and Public Affairs,” that no individual can be regarded as the leader of the Yoruba people and that there was nothing like Yoruba leadership in Yoruba land.
The former minister, however, warned Obasanjo never  to say supporters of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo made him Yoruba leader and not the entire Yoruba people, Daily Independent reports.
According to Babatope, who is a hardcore follower of the late Awolowo: “I believe that Obasanjo was wrong in what he said about Chief Awolowo even though he has every right to his own opinion. But the opinion he expressed about Chief Awolowo was wrong and I have pointed that out to him that it was very, very wrong.”

“For example, he made mention of the fact that a meeting that took place in Ibadan in 1966 that many didn’t agree with Awolowo’s choice as leader. That is not true. There was no dissenting opinion when Awolowo’s name was submitted. It was a meeting that was attended by nearly all politicians of different schools in Yorubaland at that time.”
He therefore warned basanjo never to repeat such statement and urged him to produce an evidence to back up his claim.
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Obasanjo has been consistent on social media lately, drawing opinions from his book on different political and National issues. He has severally attacked the personality of immediate past president Goodluck Jonathan to immediate past coordinating minister of the economy, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala among others