Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has chosen his ex-wife to help fill the void left by Stella Obasanjo who died in 2005. 

"At his age he needs a stabilizing force, for that is what a wife is to a man," according to Fred Ojie, a public analyst resident in Lagos, Nigeria.

"You cannot wish away the role which the late Stella played in the man's life, and though he is no longer occupying any public office, he deserves a regular companion like everyone else. In fact, the older a man is, the more he needs a female companion." Ojie said.

But according to a source who claimed to know the family. No other woman can completely fill the void that Stella left as she was the woman who stood by Obasanjo during his incarceration in the Abacha regime:

"He would continue to live with the memory of Stella," 

 Daily Independent

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