Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of playing politics with his recently released public letter to President Muhammadu Buhari condemning.
Tinubu who also doubles as the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said the former president had unrestricted access to the president and could have make his observations in private.
Tinubu spoke in an interview with journalists when he visited Governor Rochas Okorocha in company with the pioneer National Chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, at the Government House Owerri, on Friday.
Tinubu said, “They both had the same background. So, I believe that would have been the conversation of retired military heads of State.
“They have unfettered access to each other, either through the Council of State or via any other means. He could see the President privately.
“He (Obasanjo) was also his (Buhari) senior in the army. I think Obasanjo was playing politics with the public letter. That is all I see.
“They also met at the African Union meeting. He has a way of discussing with the President any time he wants.”
On the coalition, the APC leader said the time is not appropriate for a response to the coalition government which Obasanjo had started campaigning for.
On what brought him to Owerri, Tinubu said, “I am here to see a very good friend of mine, the governor, Owelle Okorocha, who happens to be the governor of APC state and then pay respect to the gentleman, nationalist, great leader of our generation.”
