Former President Olusegun
Obasanjo on Monday left his guests at his Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta with
bated breath when he tore his Peoples Democratic Party membership card in their
presence.
The guests, who are
leaders of the PDP from Obasanjo’s ward around his former residence in Ita Eko,
where he registered, visited the ex-president to express their concern with his
recent utterances against the government of President Goodluck Jonathan and
what he considered as the President’s role in the postponement of the general
elections from February to March.
Obasanjo had alleged on
Saturday that Jonathan had a “grand plan” to scuttle democracy in the country
through the poll shift, accusing the President of trying to win the
presidential poll “through hook or crook.”
The guests in Abeokuta
had told the former Head of State that they had come to plead with him to stop
his criticisms of the incumbent president.
They also informed him of
the feelers that they were getting that the leaders of the party were planning
to expel him from the party.
Obasanjo asked his guests
if they were with their PDP membership card, which some of them produced.
He subsequently asked for
his own, which someone brought to him.
He then directed the
leader of the team to tear the card in shreds, telling the visitors that he was
no longer a member of the ruling party.
The former president had
last year resigned his membership of the party, when he was the Chairman of the
party’s Board of Trustees, arguing that he could no longer be in the same party
and be led in the South-West by someone he referred to as a confirmed drug
baron.
So shall u apologise to PDP in a near future. Pdp is a solid rock, where u placed yourself d Apc is a sinking sand. GEJ till 2019.
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