2015: My Vote is for APC, Obasanjo boast

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that performance, and not party loyalty would determine who he supports in the forthcoming general elections.

Obasanjo disclosed this while speaking in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital on Friday, when addressing Igbo leaders from Lagos and Ogun States, who visited him at his Presidential Hilltop Estate, Abeokuta.

The Igbo delegation was led by Chief Austine Nkeze who said they were visiting to seek his direction regarding the elections.

The former president who is also a former chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, made it clear that he would vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, in the February 28 governorship election in the state.

He also called on non-indigenes in the state to re-elect Amosun so the infrastructural, urban renewal projects being executed by the governor could be sustained.

“In 2011, we were not together, though we were together before and I did campaign against him. But, see what he has been able to do in the last three and half years in the state, I cannot sacrifice performance for party.”

“I never dream of having a bridge on dry land in Ogun state in my life time. Yes, we have Ogun River, where there is a bridge, but on a dry land, go to Ijebu, Sagamu, Ota, what am I seeing, bridges, not even one, two, three.

“So, my people, I am not talking about other elections. I have come to tell you that in order to appreciate what this personality has been able to do in the last three and half years, let us give him our votes.

“If you do me this honour and things change, come and meet me and I will be responsible. But, because I know his personality, he will not. What happened in 2011 is politics, and we can all see the difference between politics and personality,” Obasanjo said.