The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has said that he did not visit the Oba of Lagos, HRH Rilwan Akiolu because the monarch was not ready to receive him.
Obi, while speaking on Channels Television on Monday said Oba of Lagos, who is regarded as a father figure was not “readily available” when he requested to visit him during his campaign in the nation’s economic capital.
The former governor of Anambra State said that the reports that the first-class monarch refused to see him were untrue.
Obi said what happened in Lagos wasn’t unusual as it had happened during his planned visits to traditional rulers in states he had campaigned. According to him, one or two monarchs were not readily available to receive him in the past but they fixed future dates.
He said, “Some even say, ‘Oh, he (Oba of Lagos) refused to see me’. It is not true.
“The truth is that when we arrived, we wanted to do what we want to do: arrive and drive to the palace and see the Oba but we were told that he is not readily available and that we should apply and come at some other date and that we intend to do because he remains a highly respected father to me and to the entire nation.”
