What Obasanjo Said When I Won Adamawa Senatorial Election — Grace Bent

The first female senator from the North East, Grace Bent, has disclosed what former president Olusegun Obasanjo said after she won the senatorial election in Adamawa.

Bent in an interview with The Nation said, “He (Obasanjo) asked me “how did you do it.” I am quoting him again. And I said “Baba, I didn’t do it. God did it and the people of Adamawa South Senatorial District. Fantastic people.

“We have 24 ethnic groups in Adamawa South. We have the Christians. We have the Muslims. My kind of politics transcends ethnic or religious affiliations. Go and find out my records there. Everybody is mine because I understand this game“.

The former senator who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) denied the former head of state (Obasanjo) imposed her.

According to her, “He (Obasanjo) never imposed me. Thank God he is alive. I am using this as a very good opportunity to air this issue out for once. President Obasanjo himself never even gave me a chance of winning my primaries talk less of general elections. Senator Ahmadu Ali is alive.

“He was the National Chairman then. You can go and ask him on how I won my primaries. You can go and interview him. When they realized I won my primaries, a group of politicians – men – went to him to ask me to step down and go to the House of Representatives so that they can give the ticket to someone else and the clear answer from Senator Ahmadu Ali, wonderful man, was ‘this is a party that believes in the rule of law.

“If Grace Bent takes us to court after winning this primary, she will defeat us. We will not do that. She won her primaries even when nobody believed she would win.’ Baba Ahmadu Ali is alive. Baba Obasanjo is alive.

“The people voted me of their own free volition, without coercion or gun on their necks. In fact, the odds were against me because I contested against eight men.

“So, for lily and fickle-minded person to say Obasanjo imposed me and they keep saying it without the fear of God that President Obasanjo imposed. President Obasanjo couldn’t have imposed me. Did President Obasanjo come to build structure for me in Adamawa?

“Did the Yoruba people come to build structure for me in Adamawa? I won my general elections in nine local governments.

“May God forgive these people that keep making these assertions that President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed me”.

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