Obasanjo no dey joke o (Nigerian Pidgin). The former president of Nigeria, chief Olusegun Obasanjo publicly tore his PDP membership card. He left his guests on Monday at his
Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta with bated breath when he tore his Peoples
Democratic Party membership card in their presence. The guests,
who were 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.
The question in the minds of many is that what does his action by publicly tearing his membership card connotes. Does it mean he has renounced the party he was one of its early members and also helped nurtured to prominence in Africa? or could this be a stage-managed show or another theatrical play? Whatever he is up to, I am sure we would get to know better in the coming days or weeks.
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.
The question in the minds of many is that what does his action by publicly tearing his membership card connotes. Does it mean he has renounced the party he was one of its early members and also helped nurtured to prominence in Africa? or could this be a stage-managed show or another theatrical play? Whatever he is up to, I am sure we would get to know better in the coming days or weeks.
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| Obasanjo (Left) tearing PDP membership card |
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| Obasanjo (Left) tearing PDP membership card |
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| Obasanjo (Left) tearing PDP membership card |
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| Torn membership card on the floor |
O ma ga oooo #in tiwa's voice#
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