Nigeria, Sept. 15 -- Former Anambra State governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Sunday held a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The politician also separately, on the same day, met the new Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Rasheed Ladoja in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Details of the discussions at the two parleys are unknown, but they appear to be part of widening consultations ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Mr Obi, who disclosed the visits in a Facebook post, said he was accompanied by the spokesman of the Labour Party presidential campaign council, Yunusa Tanko, the party's 2023 Lagos governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and Segun Adebanjo.

He described the visits as...