Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described reports on
social media that he has fled Nigeria ahead of tomorrow February 16th
Presidential election, as Fake News.
Reports have been rife on social media that the former
president who is opposed to the re-election of President Buhari, has fled the
country.
Speaking to newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun state earlier today,
the former president said he would stay in Nigeria and vote according to his
conscience.
“Why should I travel out of the country before the election?
If not for anything, I believe I should be here to perform my civic
responsibility, which is to vote according to the dictate of my heart tomorrow
and on the second of March. Those who are carrying that type of rumour or fake
news; I leave them in the hands of God.
I am used to that
kind of thing. In Yoruba land, if your head is hard, you don’t have to worry
yourself. Let anybody tell lies against you, let anybody issue fake news
against you, let anybody abuse you, God will deal with them rightly and
appropriately,” he said
