The Nigeria Police has denied that former President Olusegun Obasanjo stormed out of an event it organised in Lagos state on Thursday, March 2.
The Police say Obasanjo did not abandon their event but was understanding and did his part.
Premium Times reports that the police made the denial on Friday, March 3 in a statement by Kayode Aderanti, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone II.
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While Aderanti admitted that the event did not kick off on time, he noted Obasanjo understood their situation and stayed behind to perform the functions delegated to him before leaving.
Aderanti said: “Former president Olusegun Obasanjo in his usual fatherly manner and once being a uniformed personnel himself, came into the hall and still went ahead to deliver his remarks as earlier scheduled.”
The police chief added that Mr. Obasanjo stayed behind at the Federal Palace Hotel venue of the event to take pictures with guests and accompanied his statement with some of the pictures.
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“In fact, the former president took his time to pose for pictures with dignitaries, seminar participants and other people individually (as is evident in the picture used in the said stories) – a clear sign he did not ‘storm’ out of the event as alleged,” he said.
Recall that widespread reports on Thursday claimed that Obasanjo stormed out of a capacity-building event organised by the police because the organisers were behind schedule.
The reports said Mr. Obasanjo condemned the organisers for keeping him waiting and admonished them to always be ready before they call him to a public function.
The police has now denied this.
Meanwhile, Obasanjo has denied that he said presidency seat should go to the Igbo tribe in 2019.
Obasanjo told journalists who interviewed him in Abeokuta during his 80th birthday that he only talked about Igbo marginalization in Nigeria and did not necessarily say that presidency seat should go to South-East in 2019.
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