Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has made it clear for the umpteenth time that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),, has since lost its soul even as the Ekiti state governor described the two personalities as destroyers of the once vibrant party.
Obasanjo who spoke at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State, after a closed door meeting with embattled factional Chairman of PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, Obasanjo said the party has gone comatose.
“And, as they all want to say now, ‘well, you were once the father of PDP,’ I was once the leader, for eight years. I was the leader of PDP but the PDP that I was the leader of is not the PDP of today.
“The PDP of today, if you can talk of a party again as PDP, its soul has been taken out of it and those who allowed that to happen are, unfortunately, either in the country or out of the country unperturbed about the fate of the party and indeed the fate of the country.
“I have said to my brother (Sheriff), that I wish him well in the dying baby they have put on his laps, because PDP is in comatose and he was of course not in the PDP, he has never been in the PDP until now.”
This was even as the Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose reacted to Saturday’s visit of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff to Obasanjo, describing it as a coming together of collaborators in the total annihilation of the PDP.
The governor said it was on record that both Obasanjo and Sheriff collaborated to destroy the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP) and that their meeting today must be to further collaborate to destroy the PDP.
Governor Fayose, who reacted to the visit through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said: “Sheriff can as well begin to sleep in Obasanjo’s house, it is good riddance to bad rubbish.”
The governor said; “since Obasanjo is no longer a member of the PDP and he has consistently maintained that he can never return to the PDP, only those in the same league with him can go about visiting him.”
He said it was hypocritical and deceitful for Sheriff to have said he went to see Obasanjo to seek advice on the way forward for the PDP because he (Obasanjo) was among those made the PDP to lose the presidency, despite that no one benefited from the party more than him.
Governor Fayose said Sheriff only visited Obasanjo as part of his plot with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to destroy the PDP, adding that “no genuine lover of the PDP will go to the house of a man who openly destroyed his PDP membership card and worked assiduously to
ensure the party’s failure in the 2015 presidential election to seek advice on how the way forward for the PDP.”
He reiterated his call to Nigerians to beware of Obasanjo, saying: “the result of Obasanjo’s imposition of President Muhammadu Buhari on the country is the hunger and sufferings that Nigerians are facing now.” [myad]
