Anyway, fast forward to 2015, OluFamous.Com gathered that Obasanjo could no longer take a situation where Jonathan is giving militants billions of Naira contracts yet the pipelines are not secured and he has also went further to give same militants contracts to import warships into the country.
Consequently, there is serious panic in the President. Jonathan and other leaders of the PDP are unsettled due the exit of Obasanjo, its first president and ex-chairman of its Board of Trustees (BoT).
While dumping PDP, Obasanjo said “I belong to a party which says Nigeria must not be destroyed.”
The former leader, who also dismissed the idea of interim government, declared his departure from the ruling party at his Hilltop Mansion, Abeokuta, while hosting members of the PDP from his Ward 11 in Abeokuta north local government.
A little drama followed his disengagement from PDP as he gave his membership card to the leader of the delegation, Sunmonu Oladunjoye, who tore it into shreds.
Obasanjo in his statement maintained that Nigeria belongs to all, stressing that he would continue to protect the interest of the nation.
“This Nigeria belongs to all of us and it must not be destroyed. This is my PDP membership card. Where I am standing is that Nigeria belongs to everybody, including babies.
“We must not allow anybody to destroy it, wherever they come from, whatever they have. If they destroy it, it becomes our burden, our children’s (burden) and (that of) the incoming generation. I belong to the group that believes that Nigeria must not be destroyed.”
Obasanjo has had a running battle with PDP, a development that led to a series of failed initiatives.
In December last year, five PDP governors including Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Liyel Imoke (Cross Rivers), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Sule Lamido (Jigawa), went to appeal to him to rescind his stand against the party. The meeting was deadlocked.
He also failed to show up at President Jonathan’s campaign in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and when the president paid him a courtesy visit after the rally, Obasanjo did not hide his feeling that he was not in support of Jonathan’s ambition after he made him support him in 2011 with a promise to handover.
Jonathan, party leaders hold emergency meeting
Immediately after the news of Obasanjo’s exit from the PDP got to the presidency, the leadership of the party went into a crucial meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja.
Those at the meeting included President Jonathan; Vice President Namadi Sambo; PDP chairman Adamu Muazu; BoT chairman Tony Anenih; Senate President David Mark; Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu; PDP deputy chairman, Uche Secondus; national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki and political adviser to the president, Ahmed Rufai Alkali.
The party is now trying to strategize on how to succeed with Obasanjo's big exit from the party.
Consequently, there is serious panic in the President. Jonathan and other leaders of the PDP are unsettled due the exit of Obasanjo, its first president and ex-chairman of its Board of Trustees (BoT).
While dumping PDP, Obasanjo said “I belong to a party which says Nigeria must not be destroyed.”
The former leader, who also dismissed the idea of interim government, declared his departure from the ruling party at his Hilltop Mansion, Abeokuta, while hosting members of the PDP from his Ward 11 in Abeokuta north local government.
A little drama followed his disengagement from PDP as he gave his membership card to the leader of the delegation, Sunmonu Oladunjoye, who tore it into shreds.
Obasanjo in his statement maintained that Nigeria belongs to all, stressing that he would continue to protect the interest of the nation.
“This Nigeria belongs to all of us and it must not be destroyed. This is my PDP membership card. Where I am standing is that Nigeria belongs to everybody, including babies.
“We must not allow anybody to destroy it, wherever they come from, whatever they have. If they destroy it, it becomes our burden, our children’s (burden) and (that of) the incoming generation. I belong to the group that believes that Nigeria must not be destroyed.”
Obasanjo has had a running battle with PDP, a development that led to a series of failed initiatives.
In December last year, five PDP governors including Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Liyel Imoke (Cross Rivers), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Sule Lamido (Jigawa), went to appeal to him to rescind his stand against the party. The meeting was deadlocked.
He also failed to show up at President Jonathan’s campaign in Abeokuta, Ogun State, and when the president paid him a courtesy visit after the rally, Obasanjo did not hide his feeling that he was not in support of Jonathan’s ambition after he made him support him in 2011 with a promise to handover.
Jonathan, party leaders hold emergency meeting
Immediately after the news of Obasanjo’s exit from the PDP got to the presidency, the leadership of the party went into a crucial meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja.
Those at the meeting included President Jonathan; Vice President Namadi Sambo; PDP chairman Adamu Muazu; BoT chairman Tony Anenih; Senate President David Mark; Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu; PDP deputy chairman, Uche Secondus; national security adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki and political adviser to the president, Ahmed Rufai Alkali.
The party is now trying to strategize on how to succeed with Obasanjo's big exit from the party.
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