Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the recent crisis in the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) has shown that the party’s era had come to an end.
Mr. Obasanjo disclosed
this while fielding questions from journalists in Jalingo, the Capital City of
Taraba, during a tour of some projects in the state.
When asked to comment
on the ongoing crisis in his former party, the PDP, Mr. Obasanjo simply said “in
the part of the country where I come from, there is a saying that you cannot
say ‘good night’ and come to say ‘good evening’ in the same place.
“So for me, it is good
night for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and that’s all,” he said.
Mr. Obasanjo. who was
one time Chairman, Board of Trustees of the party, had torn his membership
certificate before the 2015 election denouncing the party in its entirety.
Recently when a picture
and story went out in the media that he was at a PDP event at the Shehu Musa
Yar’Adua Centre, he also made it very clear that he was done with the party and
with partisan politics.
Attending PDP Event
A wrongly captioned
photograph by NAN had set tongues wagging and the rumour mills busy as to the
mission of the former leader, who in 2015 tore his membership card of the PDP.
NAN can
confirm that the former leader did not go near the ceremony inaugurating the
National Convention Committee of the PDP faction led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi.
Rather, Mr. Obasanjo
was at the centre to take part in an agricultural stakeholders meeting, Zero
Hunger in Africa-Nigeria chapter
Some news reports had
gone ahead with speculations that the former president was making political
realignment for 2019 elections.
The PDP event was meant
to inaugurate the party’s national convention and financial committees.The
party convention, downgraded to be non-elective after a court ban, held on Aug.
17 in Port Harcourt.
According to a
statement by Tunde Arosanyin of the Zero Hunger in Africa in Abuja on Saturday,
it was just a coincidence that the two meetings were holding at the same venue.
”He came for zero
hunger in Africa-Nigeria chapter meeting with commodity Association
stakeholders.
”At closing, some PDP
members came to greet him at the boardroom of the hunger meeting venue,” Mr.
Arosanyin said.
-NAN
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