Senate Chief Whip, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, on Thursday revealed in details the key role played by late South African leader, Nelson Mandela, to pressurise former President Olusegun Obasanjo to drop his third term presidential agenda.
“Disturbed by the details, Mandela placed a call to President Olusegun Obasanjo and told him in clear terms that whatever his plans were, it was neither desirable for Africa”, he said. The event, which was organised by the South African High Commission in Nigeria, held at the University of Abuja . Kalu who revealed that Mandela was his mentor, said he was tutored and shaped into a responsible, industrious and disciplined man by the late foremost African leader, “who set a challenging example to other African leaders by retiring after a single term as South Africa’s president.”
Recall that Senator Orji Kalu had few months ago undertook a trip to South Africa where he visited three ex-Presidents, and also took part in the ANC campaign launch which saw the party winning the last presidential poll. On Nigeria, the Forbes-rated billionaire said the country “will fare better if politicians, irrespective of their party affiliations, respect party supremacy.”
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