AN attempt by the Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who returned to the country last week from a medical trip in the United States (U.S.), to see President Goodluck Jonathan over the 2011 elections, was rebuffed by the President last week, the Nigerian Compass has learnt..
Odumegwu-Ojukwu was allegedly led to the Presidential Villa in Abuja by the Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, to see the President.
The Nigerian Compass gathered that the President did not give Ojukwu the attention he (Ojukwu) and Obi had expected.
A source said that on arrival at the Villa in the convoy of the governor, under the pretence that Obi was in the Villa to see Jonathan, they were led into an office where the President showed up and left in less than five minutes, telling them that he was very busy..
It was also gathered that Obi had led Ojukwu to see Jonathan to declare support for the President.
It would be recalled that Ojukwu, had in May this year, declared his support for former military head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd).
Declaring his support for Babangida’s presidential ambition, Odumegwu-Ojukwu said that the former military president should be given a second chance to rule the country.
Odumwgwu-Ojukwu, who said that Babangida remains his bosom friend, said this when he received a delegation of Campaign Network for IBB (CNI) led by Chief Peter Dada Osadebay in his residence in Enugu.
The Nigerian Compass gathered in Abuja that since Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s declaration for Babangida, Obi has been begging Jonathan not to take such an action serious.
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