Former first lady Turai Yar’Adua has run to former president Olusegun Obasanjo for succor, Premium Times reports.

The report says Turai wants Obasanjo to help persuade President Muhammadu Buhari not to probe her daughter and other family members.

Turai visited Obasanjo on Saturday in his Abeokuta home and was reportedly accompanied by businessman Kenny Martins.

This is the first visit she is paying Obasanjo since her husband died in office in 2010 after a prolonged illness.

According to a source, she pleaded with him to forgive her and her family for whatever wrong was done to Obasanjo during Yar’Adua’s tenure.

Sources said Turai also pleaded with Obasanjo to prevail on Buhari not to harass or victimize her family members or those who worked with her husband.

“She specifically intimated the former President of the ongoing probe of one of her daughters, Zainab, by the EFCC. She believed it is a witch-hunt, a ploy by the Buhari government to get at her family,” one of the sources said.

An aide of Obasanjo also confirmed the visit. 

“It is true that she visited on Saturday. I don’t know exactly what she discussed with Baba (Obasanjo). But I think it is safe to say she came to greet him and discuss issues relevant to the two families,” the aide said.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on July 22 summoned wife of former Kebbi State Governor, Saidu Dakingari, Zainab over an alleged N2 billion fraud perpetrated during her husband’s tenure as governor.

Dakingari was initially expected to report for questioning at the EFCC headquarters on July 22. However, she was given another appointment for July 27  after she sent words that she was away to Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj.

When she appeared on July 27, investigators said she was granted administrative bail on health grounds and asked to return on a future date.

Janeth J