Former first lady Turai Yar’Adua
has run to former president Olusegun Obasanjo for succour.
Report says Turai
wants Obasanjo
to help persuade President Muhammadu Buhari not to probe her daughter and other
family members.
Turai visited Obasanjo on Saturday in his
Abeokuta home and was reportedly accompanied by businessman Kenny Martins.
This is the first visit she is paying
Obasanjo since her husband died in office in 2010 after a prolonged illness.
According to a source, she pleaded
with him to forgive her and her family for whatever wrong was done to Obasanjo
during Yar’Adua’s tenure.
Sources said Turai also pleaded with
Obasanjo to prevail on Buhari not to harass or victimize her family members or
those who worked with her husband.
“She specifically intimated the former
President of the ongoing probe of one of her daughters, Zainab, by the EFCC.
She believed it is a witch-hunt, a ploy by the Buhari government to get at her
family,” one of the sources said.
An aide of Obasanjo also confirmed the
visit.
“It is true that she visited on Saturday.
I don’t know exactly what she discussed with Baba (Obasanjo). But I think it is
safe to say she came to greet him and discuss issues relevant to the two
families,” the aide said.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) had on July 22 summoned wife of former Kebbi State Governor,
Saidu Dakingari, Zainab over an alleged N2 billion fraud perpetrated during her
husband’s tenure as governor.
Dakingari was initially expected to
report for questioning at the EFCC headquarters on July 22. However, she was
given another appointment for July 27 after she sent words that she was
away to Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj.
When she appeared on July 27,
investigators said she was granted administrative bail on health grounds and
asked to return on a future date.
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