The
Peoples Democratic Party has said that it will not force former President
Olusegun Obasanjo to return as its member.
It said it
would respect the decision of the former President, but added that whether he
returned or not, it (the party) would not die.
Obasanjo
had on Tuesday vowed never to return to the party, saying he would rather
remain a statesman, working for the interest of the nation.
He spoke
with journalists after he held a meeting with the National Caretaker Chairman
of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, behind closed doors at the Olusegun Obasanjo
Presidential Library, Abeokuta.
He had
said, “I have told the chairman that I was in the PDP before but not now. God
forbid, se when dog vomits, it will go back to eat its vomit, no.
“I have
said no partisan politics for me again, but Nigeria is my passion until death
do us apart. And anything that concerns Nigeria, the good of Nigeria, you’ll
see my involvement.
“So, the
chairman has come to greet me and I greet am, and now that we have greeted
ourselves, the chairman will be going, you gentlemen and ladies of the press,
you can now go, leave the chairman alone.”
Reacting,
the spokesperson for the PDP, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said Obasanjo had earlier
said that he would not return to the party, adding that as an individual, the
party would respect his views.
He said,
“He has said it before (that he won’t return to the party). We are not
going to force him. No individual is bigger than the party.
“Obasanjo
has the right to hold his opinion. But the PDP will not die, either he joins us
or not.
“We
respect his opinion. There’s nothing to say more than that. He is an
individual and we respect him.”
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