A few facts have emerged of how former President and erstwhile BoT Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olusegun Obasanjo, tore his PDP membership card into shreds.
A group of elders belonging to the PDP from Ita Eko ward (where Obasanjo had registered) had besieged the Abeokuta Hilltop mansion residence of Obasanjo to express their concerns over his verbal jousts with President Jonathan. Obasanjo’s guests had proceeded to inform ‘Baba Iyabo’ that there were feelers that the top hierarchy of the ruling party would soon move to have him expelled from the fold if he continues with lampooning Jonathan in the media and in public.
Obasanjo thereafter asked his guests if they had their PDP membership cards with them, which some of them produced. He tasked a member of his staff to produce his which was done.
The former military ruler received his card, ripped same apart and declared he was no longer a member of the PDP.
“They said they want to expel me from PDP, although I have not been told but I have my ears on ground. We’ve been trying to run away from a man but he pleads we wait for him at the other side of the river. I have told you before that I became president on the platform of PDP, once I leave PDP I will not join any party,” he told journalists.
“I will only be a Nigerian, I am ready to work with anybody regardless of political affiliation. Why would some people say they want to send me away, they don’t need to bother themselves, here’s your membership card, take it,” Mr. Obasanjo said, before dumping his membership card which was later torn by a member of the party from his ward.
“From today on, in the presence of all us and with your support, I am not going to be in any political party in Nigeria. I am no more a politician but a statesman both internally and externally. The issued that they want to expel me from the party for, once you people are with me what other people am I looking for,” he said.
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