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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied the allegation that he deliberately supported a \u201csick\u201d Musa Yar\u2019Adua, for the presidency in 2007, for selfish interests.<\/div>\n
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Obasanjo, who spoke on Sunday in a virtual interview with academic and historian, Toyin Falola, admitted that he knew the late President Musa Yar\u2019Adua was ill but noted that his medical record was checked before choosing him.<\/p>\n

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According to Obasanjo, Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s medical record showed that he was fit to act as President.<\/p>\n

Yar\u2019Adua, who later won the 2007 presidential election, died in office in May 2010, but Obasanjo noted that he had no wrong motives for choosing him.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cLet me tell you the story of Umaru Yar\u2019adua. I knew he was ill and before I put him forward, I asked for his medical report which he sent to me and I sent it to one of the best doctors of our time and a good friend of mine who died only last year \u2013Professor Akinkugbe.<\/p>\n

I said look at it because it is confidential and he said to me that from this report, this man has had a kidney transplant and it is successful, he is no longer under dialysis.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you have a kidney transplant and it is successful, it is as good as if you didn\u2019t have a kidney transplant at all. I accepted that and Umaru Yar\u2019adua contested within the party and he contested within the country and came up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the process of the campaign, I remember that he had to go for a medical checkup abroad and he was not around for a campaign here in Abeokuta.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called him because the rumour was that he had died. I called him on my telephone and put it on speaker. I said, \u2018Umaru, are you dead or alive?\u2019 and he said, \u2018I am not dead, I am alive\u2019.<\/p>\n

Within a couple of days, he came back and reported that he was checked up and he was well. That was the position of Umaru Yar\u2019adua and if anybody in his right sense will think that what I have done in that position was not right, I leave him in the hands of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obasanjo also revealed how former Rivers Governor Peter Odili lost out in the race to emerge late President Musa Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s running mate in 2007.<\/p>\n

Odili was a leading contender for the vice-presidential slot but lost out in dramatic manners at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention in Abuja.<\/p>\n

Obasanjo said: \u201cPeter Odili was a much stronger personality than Goodluck Jonathan but Peter Odili had an EFCC issue which made him to be dropped and once he was dropped, the next man was Goodluck Jonathan and Goodluck Jonathan had all going for him.<\/p>\n

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