The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Wednesday recalled his first encounter with the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III.
Addressing the Sultan at his palace in Sokoto State, Obi said he could attest to the religious leader’s antecedents from his first meeting with the Sultan 40 years ago.
According to the LP candidate, the encounter occurred when he was a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) while the Sultan was a young military officer serving in Enugu State.
Obi made his first stop at the palace after arriving at the Sultan Abubakar III International Airport in company with his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed
