‘Emilokan’, ‘Olule’, What I Told Tinubu About 2023 Election- Obasanjo

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that he asked Bola Ahmed Tinubu important questions about the two words that he brought into the politics of Nigeria ahead of the 2023 election.

 

Newsonline reports that ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo disclosed a bit of the discussion he had with the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate on Friday.

 

Bola Tinubu, along with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and others visited the former president on Wednesday in Abeokuta to seek his blessing for the presidential ambition of Tinubu.

 

Although Tinubu remained mute after the visit, Femi Gbajabiamila, while opening a road construction project in Surulere, Lagos State, disclosed that Obasanjo was happy with the visit of the former governor of Lagos.

 

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Gbajabiamila also revealed that only he, Tinubu and Chief Osoba, were allowed in for the closed-door meeting.

 

At the inauguration of a 300-man planning committee on the installation of the new Olowu of Owu, Oba Saka Matemilola, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo said he told Tinubu that he had added two phrases recently used by the former Lagos Governor to Yoruba vocabularies.

 

According to Obasanjo whether the Emilokan and Olule are two good vocabularies ahead of the 2023 election is a matter for the public, however, the public has started using them.

 

“We now have two vocabularies in the Yoruba dictionary, ‘Emilokan’ and ‘Olule’. These two vocabularies are now popularly used”.

 

“I asked Bola and he laughed. I said whether the vocabularies are good or bad, we have started using them.”

 

The two words, Emilokan and Olule were the words that Tinubu used in Abeokuta, Ogun State while campaigning for the APC presidential primary election.

 

Tinubu said Emilokan, which means it was his turn to be the president of the country. This he said was because according to him, he made President Buhari win the 2015 general election.