Former President Obasanjo Speaks On Tinubu’s ’Emilokan, Eleyi, Olule’ (Video)

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed his view on ‘emilokan, olule and eleyi’ and created by the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.

Recall that Tinubu visited the former President in his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Wednesday.

According to the former president, Tinubu has created new ‘vocabularies’ in Yoruba political dictionary.

In a video clip, Obasanjo who spoke in Yoruba, said “Yesterday, when I received a guest. I said dear guest, you have introduced some vocabularies into the Yoruba political dictionary – Emi lokan (it’s my turn), eleyi (this one), olule (he was beaten down).

“He laughed. I said I didn’t know whether these new vocabularies are good or bad, but they are new but we’ll be using them.”

The words ‘emi lokan’, ‘eleyi’, and ‘olule’ meaning ‘it’s my turn’, ‘this one’ and ‘beaten down’ respectively were used by the former Lagos governor while speaking with an emotional outburst at the gathering of APC stalwarts which had Governor Dapo Abiodun in attendance.

APC National Leader used ‘emi lokan’ to say it was his turn to become the nation’s president to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. While speaking about how he had contributed to the political ambitions of some politicians, he called Abiodun ‘eleyi’ saying I made ‘this one’ to become governor too.

Tinubu also said that Buhari contested three times for presidential election but ‘olule’ (he was beaten down) and at the point of making no attempt, he (Tinubu) was the one that approached him when he (Buhari) was crying on national television.

Tinubu introduced new vocabularies to Yoruba political dictionary — Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinibu, has introduced new Yoruba political vocabularies. pic.twitter.com/baZbS6u8qy

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