Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in group Photograph with members of the PDP NWC led by National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus | Photo credit: The Whistler NGFormer President, Olusegun Obasanjo has forgiven the many sins of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he formally resigned from ahead of the 2015 general elections, pledging to work with the party in the 2019 polls.
Responding to apology tendered to him by the PDP national chairman, Uche Secondus when the party’s leadership met with him in his Abeokuta Hilltop residence today, Saturday, Obasanjo said in Yoruba proverb that one does not hand over his child’s waistband to an enemy just because the band did not fit the child’s waist.
The former President, who tore his PDP membership card in 2015 indicating his resignation from the party, now expressed his preparedness to join forces with the party to fight for the course of nationhood.
He assured that Nigeria’s glory would be restored, regardless of what it takes, even as the PDP leaders, made up of members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and leaders of the Board of Trustees (BOT), admitted that mistakes were made in the past.
They reminded Obasanjo of the significance of forgiveness as a divine directive.
Obasanjo was quoted as saying that he would join forces with well-meaning leaders across the country to prevent the nation’s drift to lawlessness.
This was even as Secondus hailed the commitment of the former President towards the development and stability of the nation, recalling his personal inputs both as military and elected President.
He charged Obasanjo to lead from the front, as he had always done, adding that young leaders have a lot to learn from him.
Last week, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), a party that his home to loyalists of the former President, signed a Memorandum of Understanding alongside 37 others with the PDP to field a joint Presidential candidate in the 2019 elections.
