Former President Eulogizes Late British Monarch

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday disclosed that he had tremendous respect for late British monarch Queen Elizabeth Ii whose remains were interred in the United Kingdom yesterday.

Obasanjo who spoke at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Penthouse residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital described Queen Elizabeth as a personality with great human relations, whom he equally had a perfect relationship with.

In a press release yesterday by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo further eulogized the late Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, hinting that he was about to leave the secondary school when the late Queen first visited the country in 1956.

The former President who joined the rest of the world to mourn with her family, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the rest of the world said he was fortunate to have hosted her as Nigerian President during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Abuja in 2003