Peter Obi free to visit my palace — Oba of Lagos, Akiolu

The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has described the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a ‘complete gentleman’ who is free to visit him at his palace anytime he wishes to.

This came on the backdrop of allegations by a female supporter of the Labour party candidate who had accused the monarch of rejecting the moves by Peter Obi to visit him at his Iduganran palace, Lagos Island.

Akiolu, spoke when the former Lagos Commissioner of Police, CP, Abiodun Alabi paid him a courtesy visit in his palace in the company of the new Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa.

The revered monarch, while declaring that he has a cordial relationship with the Igbos in Lagos, added that the late President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief George  Obiozor, was his close friend.

According to Akiolu, “Nobody has written to me that any presidential candidate is coming to visit me.

“If anybody writes to me, I cannot deny them but as far as Peter Obi is concerned, whom I see as a complete gentleman, he has not approached me.

“I was always with the late Ohanaeze President, Obiazor, every weekend when he was alive and anytime I travelled to New York, he would always come to pick me up at the airport.

“So, I have no grudge against any Igbo man. I respect people and I don’t fear anybody,” Akiolu said. Vanguard