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| Olusegun Obasanjo (center) in hand shake with Atiku Abubakar |
As congratulatory messages continued to pour in from within and outside the country, over the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has not publicly said a word over the development.
In the early hours of yesterday, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, declared Buhari winner of the Saturday, February 23 presidential poll, with 15,191,847 to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peopleโs Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who scored 11,262,978 votes..
Prominent and well-meaning Nigerians as well as international leaders have since been commending and congratulating Buhari over his victory in the election, widely adjudged as peaceful and credible.
Obasanjo,who was quite vocal in the build-up to the election has, however, gone quiet since the result was announced.
Telephone calls made to Obasanjoโs Media Aide, Mr Kehinde Akinyemi, by the correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) were not picked while text messages sent to him for reaction were neither acknowledged nor replied.
Obasanjo had endorsed and adopted Atiku, whom he had once accused and condemned over corruption claims.
From the results announced by INEC, Buhari defeated Atiku in Obasanjoโs polling unit in Abeokuta.
