Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he went to South Africa to seek counsel from Late South Africa President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu before entering into elections that brought him back into power after 17 years of down time.
Speaking at a church service for his 80th birthday anniversary in Abeokuta, he said, “When the pressure to contest started shortly after my release from prison from offence I knew nothing about, two persons came to mind—Madiba and Tutu.
“I went to South Africa and I met Mandela then, he said I should follow my instinct. I also went to Desmond Tutu and he said that I why I want to offend God. If your people want you to serve God why are you saying no?”
He went on: “I returned to Nigeria and one day by accident while opening my Bible, I opened the Book of Esther. Today all is history, but in all this, I will say that God has been impartial to me. Because where I was born, it is unimaginable that somebody will come out from the place and become all these," Obasanjo said,
Obasanjo equally admitted that God has been "impartial" to him for making him what he has been able to become in life.
This, to him was because; his birth place at ibogun, near Ifo in Ogun state was considered as a write-off.
At a ceremony, organized by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ogun state chapter, the former president, was honoured with the prestigious title of the "Asiwaju Onigbagbo of Christians (leader of all Christians) in Ogun State.”
