Nigerian musician, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has shared an encounter in which former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, once surprised him.
Charly shared details of the surprise encounter in a Facebook post staying that the politician actually surprised him with a “Ghana Must Go” bag, but not in the way many would expect.
In a Facebook post on Friday titled “The Day Peter Obi Surprised Me With Ghana Must Go”, Charly Boy narrated that it began when the former Anambra State governor, phoned him around 1 a.m. to request an early morning visit.
“Peter Obi call me say, ‘My Senior bros, I wcome see you, but I no too sure if u fit don wake about the time I for like come.’ Like what time? I asked. ‘Maybe around 5:30 or 6.’
“Na so u wan disturb my early momo exercise parole and my scooter ride? I queried. Without overthinking it, I said ok. Anything for my Presido. Sharp, sharp, by exactly 5:45 am Obi show. No African time, a man of his word,” Charly Boy wrote.
“As I come downstairs to meet him, na so I see one big Ghana Must Go by the entrance of my sitting room. I look the bag, I just dey wonder, wetin fit dey inside this bag?” he said.
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“My people, you can never imagine wetin full inside this bag. Inside the bag were 3 bottles of roasted groundnuts. Many alligator peppers, kola nuts, pawpaw, oranges, akara, mangos, bananas etc. wey Obi pack by himself.
“I just no know when I fall for ground begin laugh”, Charly Boy narrated.
“He tell me, ‘Senior I no fit give you money, but I fit give you this one, na my hand pick.’ Which kind native intelligence pass this one. Dis Peter na Okute. But I love the bobo no be here. Na so I say, Obi thank you oh,” he recalled Obi saying
“Sometimes na the little things go remind you say life no too hard. Na kolanut and bitter kola wey Obi dash me sweet me pass money,” he wrote.
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