Obasanjo, gave the nod when the Delta state frontline governorship aspirant, paid him a courtesy visit in his Ota country home, Ogun State.
Elated Obasanjo, who expressed joy on hearing about Gbagi’s political ambition, promised him of getting to government house.
He charged Gbagi not to disappoint the party when he becomes governor come 2023, disclosing that some who were sent got there only to disappoint the people.
“Now that he has come to say he wants to govern Delta State, I will give him my support.
“When you have a fine bead, no matter how you love a stranger, you tie the bead around your son’s waist. Gbagi is my son.
“I do not want you to disappoint us and fail on the promises you have made to the people of Delta State”.
He recalled how he was hosted in Oginibo, Gbagi’s hometown in Ughelli south local government area of the state during the incumbent’s re-election in 2019.
He advised him to be a needle with a thread when he gets to the government house, saying “sincere people who will look you in the face and tell you the truth when you are going wrong and draw you back, just as the thread pulls back the needle”.
He charged him to go and campaign around the state and have more friends than enemies as politics is a game of numbers.
Earlier, Olorogun Gbagi, a frontrunner for the race and an international industrialist who presented himself to Obasanjo, went memory lane on how the former President had asked him four consecutive times in the past what he wants but he rather replied him of going to develop himself in business.
He noted that having built businesses successfully, he has decided to bring the technocratic approach into the governance of his state and has come back as a son to give an answer to the question Obasanjo had asked him four times.
“Baba, I have come to give you the answer of what I want. Sir, I want to govern Delta State and industrialize it”.
He stated that he has consulted God and man and they have given approval for him to take over the mantle of leadership from Governor Ifeanyi Okowa who is in his last term and as a child who must seek his father’s blessing before embarking on a journey.
He reminded the ex-president of how he contested the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial ticket in 1999 with Prof. Sam Oyovwaire and Chief James Onanefe Ibori.
He stated that despite the outcome, he has never left the party but stayed behind to build and nurture it, waiting for the right time to get to the turn of Delta Central again for him to throw his hat in the race.
