The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has revealed that he can never visit the home of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Gani Adams, who is also the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress, stated this while reacting to media reports that a reconciliatory meeting between Obasanjo and himself was held in the Lagos residence of a notable leader of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo.
Obasanjo had in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, after the meeting on Wednesday, said he didn’t visit the residence of Adebanjo for a reconciliatory meeting with the Aare of Ona Kakanfo.
He said, “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.”
In his reaction at a press conference today, Adams said he had yet to understand what Obasanjo meant by “his past way of life.”
He said, “I don’t know what baba Obasanjo meant by my way of life. I agree with him that we don’t have the same character because he’s not a progressive. Obasanjo will not like the character of any progressive Nigerian. I have never at anytime requested to meet Obasanjo as he claimed. I initially didn’t want to attend the meeting when Chief Ayo Adebanjo told me. But I decided to honour the invitation because Chief Adebanjo is one the Yoruba elders I respect so much.
“He (Obasanjo) stated in his statement that whoever feels he needs a reconciliatory meeting with him should come to his residence in Abeokuta. I don’t have the need for any reconciliatory meeting with him. That one has been foreclosed. I cannot even go to his house
