Obasanjo rejects Osoba’s 2003 ‘deception’ claim, defends political strategy
says he neither misled anyone nor acted in bad faith By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to former Ogun State Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, over claims that he deceived leaders of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) during the political realignments leading to the 2003 general elections, insisting that he neither misled anyone nor acted in bad faith.
The former President defended his decision to invite the AD into what he described as a broad-based national government after winning the presidency, saying it was motivated by a desire to promote national unity rather than political weakness.
The former President further accused some AD leaders of embracing what he described as an anti-democratic political arrangement allegedly promoted by his Vice-President without verifying the claims with him.
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