Senate President David Mark and former governor of Lagos State and a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, on Friday held separate closed-door meetings with the former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Mark and Tinubu at the end of the meetings held at the former president’s Hilltop residence in Abeokuta said the issues discussed bordered on politics and the state of the nation.
Tinubu said he discussed with Obasanjo about “some of his former boys” who would vie for various elective positions in the 2015 general elections, especially the Presidency.
He said, “We are here to pay homage to our former president and have a number of discussions with him because he has a lot of influence in the political sphere.
“As a good merger, we need to talk. Because the merger will serve various branches. It is a very big tree. So, we need to talk, to find out his thinking about Nigeria and the future.
“We need to seek his observation as some of his former boys are running for presidency in our party. What can he say about them?”
When pressed further, Tinubu refused to expatiate on the crucial meeting which lasted about two hours.
But he later said there was nothing worth celebrating about 54th independence anniversary, since the
country remained “an invalid baby in the incubator.”
Senator Rasheed Ladoja, a former governor of Oyo State was also in the meeting between , Obasanjo and Tinubu.
Mark, who arrived at the Hilltop residence at 2pm, left around 3.45pm.
He also described Obasanjo as the father of the nation with a wealth of experience.
The Senate President told journalists after the meeting that he had come with his team, which included the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan; Peoples Democratic Party Women Leader, Mrs Josephine Anenih; and Senator Polycarp Nwite, among others to discuss with Obasanjo and raise some basic issues that affect both the PDP and the nation at large.
He said, “They are discussions that would move this nation forward, because his passion for this nation is unquantifiable. So we have really had a good discussion with him.”