The Presidency has denied reports that former Presidents,Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan visited PresidentMuhammadu Buhari in a bid to stop the current war against corruption.BUT THEN:
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, met with the immediate past president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at the weekend in the Presidential Villa.
A source told Channels Television that the meeting between both leaders held in the night and lasted for about one hour.
It was not exactly clear what both men discussed, but there were strong indications that the leaders tried to examine the ongoing corruption investigation of the former president’s cabinet.
Channels Television gathered that after the meeting, both men parted chatting and laughing.
Buhari’s media aide, Garba Shehu said further, on Sunday, August 9, 2015, that the anti-graft war ‘will continue to go on”.
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Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan
(Eagle Eye Report)
Jonathan paid a secret visit to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday, August 6, while Obasanjo visited on Friday, 7.
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Former Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan
“The meeting between former Presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan with President Buhari were private and confidential,”Shehu said.
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Presidential media aide, Garba Shehu
“The president can call them for advice. But it will be unfair for anybody to feel or say it was to stop the war against corruption. The war will continue to go on,” Shehu added.
Buhari has said that his probe would focus only on Jonathan’s administration and forensic auditors have already been called in to being the process.
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