“But at that time I was out of the country, I think I was in Dubai or somewhere. But he was persistently reaching out to me and I was avoiding him. But I didn’t want to see him because I didn’t want it to look like, oh, because I’ve expressed my views, which seems to be like almost in his favor, he now wants to see me and corner me to be one of his supporters. I don’t want to support any politician because I’m not partisan. Because some people are already resigning from activism and joining him.”

Adeyanju narrated further that when he eventually met Obi, the conversation turned bitter after questions on past corruption allegations and investments in family businesses.

“You know, so I didn’t want to join his bandwagon, but I was excited by the idea of Peter Obi because of course, South East have not produced a president in a very long time except after post-independence anyway. So I was excited. So subsequently I made some further views and this time around he was more persistent. So one of his aide, a journalist, reached out to me. So we subsequently met.

“And I said yes. He first recommended me for some of my views and all that and said that it should be exciting to work together. I said I’m not working with anybody. So I now made some observations about the things that he has been accused of doing in the past. Corruption. Sarah reported the story where his staff was caught with money. He tried to explain it but I was not satisfied. Then I also raised the issue about these issues of him using state resources in Anambra to invest in his family business. His explanation to me in his defense was that he had resigned from the company before he became a governor. I was flabbergasted. I couldn’t just wait to get up to leave the place. I’m like, how can a man that wants to be president of Nigeria not see the clear abuse? You understand that he has abused his office to do such a thing.

“He was justifying it. He didn’t see anything wrong in it. I was completely disgusted. So eventually I didn’t want to disrespect him so I wanted to leave. And then he got into, because we were like in the living room, it’s like a suite. Then he got into a room and said, oh please he’s coming. That he wants to go inside the room and he has something for me. So he brought one envelope or something like that. And said no, this is just a small thing. It’s just for coming blah blah blah.

“I said that means you don’t know me. I said that you are friends with Mimiko, former governor Mimiko and others. They are people that I was close to. Ask them about me. If we do anything because of conviction, it’s even me that will bring out of my money and support you. You know, so you can’t be insisting that it’s not like that. It’s not what I’m thinking. I said, God forbid, I left. So, however, I never revealed what happened to anyone.”

The latest outburst comes after Obi, through his lawyer Alex Ejesieme (SAN), served a letter of demand on Adeyanju over what he described as repeated defamatory publications. Obi’s legal team accused the activist of persistently posting false and malicious statements on X, Facebook, and other platforms aimed at portraying him as corrupt, fraudulent, and intolerant.

-Source: Politics Nigeria