Acclaimed Mrs. Obasanjo is an impostor – Obj Media Aide

The attention of former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been drawn to a statement purported to be issued by a wife of the President with the photograph of one Ms. Taiwo Martins as the author of the statement.

It would be recalled that Ms Martins had in statement sought the forgiveness of Oyo Obas and the Yoruba race in general over a recent action of her husband, which said, publicly humiliated the traditional rulers.

The former president, a special guest at the commissioning of projects by the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde had chastised some Yoruba traditional rulers for not standing up in reverence to him as a former president and the governor.

He consequently ordered them to stand up to recognize his presence.

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Reacting, in a statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media to the former President, Kehinde Akinyemi, said though Ms. Martins has two children, Jonwo and Bunmi, for Chief Obasanjo but to say emphatically that she is not his wife nor a member of the Obasanjo family.

“Her posturing as Chief Obasanjo’s wife is false and that of an impostor. Nobody makes statements on behalf of the Obasanjo family except Chief Obasanjo or people delegated by him to do so.

“It must be noted that the state of health of Ms. Martins is known to all and sundry and whatever she says or does has nothing to do with Chief Obasanjo as an individual or the Obasanjo family as a whole.

“However, the former President has affirmed that he stood firmly, unapologetically and uncompromisingly on the position that the Governor of a State holds the highest office in the State.

“By that position, the respect, protocol and dignity that must be given to the office by virtue of the Constitution must not be denied. To do otherwise is to deride the office and the Constitution.