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As criticisms and commendations continue to trail his dramatic exit from the Peoples Democratic Party, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has explained how he arrived at the decision to dump the party to which he belonged for 16 years.

The former president had Monday announced his resignation as a member of the party on whose platform he ruled the country between 1999 and 2007.
Mr. Obasanjo renounced his hip of the PDP when some leaders of the party led by Surajudeen Oladunjoye, the chairman of the ward around his former residence in Ita Eko, visited him at his Presidential Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta home.

The former president directed Mr. Oladunjoye to tear his hip card at a press conference organised during the visit.
About two hours later, the PDP leadership in Ogun State announced the expulsion of the former president from the party.
However, in a telephone interview with TIMES Tuesday, Mr. Obasanjo explained that the PDP visited him to express their genuine concern about his refusal to be active in the party.

“They were concerned that I had only one leg in the party, and worried that since I’m their leader in the ward, they need to hear from me,” the former President said.
According to him, when the party arrived his residence, they were singing a song in Yoruba language –
“Nigeria yi ti gbobgo wa ni, Ko ma gbodo ba je. Eje ka sowopo kajo gbega (Meaning – Nigeria belongs to all of us, we must not allow it to be destroyed and we must hands to make it great).
Mr. Obasanjo said when they settled down he sought to know why they came and that it was at that point that Mr. Oladunjoye told him that since he (Obasanjo) as their leader became angry with the PDP and remained inactive in the party, they had not only lost sense of direction but also worried about their political future.

He also said the party informed him that the leadership in the state was planning to expel him and that they wondered what would happen to them if he was expelled because they would become rudderless.
“You are our leader and it is you we are following. You have remained a card-carrying member of the the party. But since you became angry with the party we have lost sense of direction and now we are hearing that they want to expel you. If they expel you, where do we go? What do we do?” Mr. Obasanjo quoted the ward chairman as saying.

The former president explained that it was at that point that he gave them his PDP hip card and told them that they could do whatever they want with it.
He said, “In my response, I said when you people came you were singing a song and I agreed that Nigeria is our own. If the issue is the party, I will not choose the party at the detriment of Nigeria and I will fight for Nigeria even at the detriment of the party. I will rather surrender my hip of the party so you people can move on politically,”

Mr. Obasanjo explained to TIMES.
“If you people’s worry is that I’m a card-carrying member of the party and I’m not showing you people direction and you are worried that I’m neither here nor there, this is the card; you can keep it, you can burn it or you can tear it, do whatever you want to do with it.”

The former president said he then handed over his hip card to Mr. Oladunjoye, who immediately decided on his own to shred it.
Mr. Obasanjo said he had no regrets for his action despite the criticisms that have greeted it.

http://www.timesng.com/news/headlines/177051-why-i-directed-pdp-ward-leader-to-tear-my-hip-card-obasanjo.html

Waiting for the details

baba ooooooo

I am sceptical about commenting on anything OBJ.

If lalasticlala checks well and puts it on the home page, ehen ..

Irrelevant




We don't give a fucck! For all we care, you can go to hell and burn to ashes

Baba we have heard you......we are already moving on without you..
No be by social media votes...the real deal is the world out here!
GEJ 2015!

Why is this man like this?

So cunny and vague in his expressions!
I can't even say I understood what he succeeded in ing across--
I'm even surprised how he ruled us for freaking eight years with such explanations

Who cares?

Obj u are no longer needed ...

all this reason baba gave no be reason ...

The main reason be say as party Ward leader tore ur card,he gave dem no option than for dem too to tore their card......
The exit of baba from that ward ,he carry all the along with him.....

LOBATAN.......

EBORA OWUUU

Much talking is the cause of danger.Less-talk is a means of avoiding misfortune.


The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage.Other birds with less speech,fly freely about.



It's obvious that the senescent septuagenarian must obey the laws of diminishing order.......OBJ is irrelevant and an embittered loser in the Nigerian political space.

Baba is Angry o

Anyway that's naija politics for you

In sure this man is not the only ex-leader we've had in this country

dimensia

"Baba throwing tantrums like a 5 year old since 1800BC"

let's be frank about it. it was only obasanjo's presence in the PDP that gave it that air of domination over the APC, be it an abstract or a real feeling of dominance amongst Nigerians. with his exit, PDP and APC are now perfectly equal in most people's eyes. we now have 2 very equally balanced political parties in Niger. the generic REPUBLICAN PARTY and the generic DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

Chai...OBJ can lie!!

Naija politicians always jumping from one party to another,let's see where he is going now

1 plot

OBJ

ok oo

Baba na real clown i swear

There's more than meets the eye in all the unfolding Political Drama. I pray Nigeria scales through her current Trying Times.

He was not the one that did the tearing...

Has he answered the questions you are all bout to ask?

SEE STORY UP THERE may da LORD HELP NIGERIA[b][/b].................

Defeat is eminent for GEJ.

The truth is baba is sick of the clueless and corrupt party so baba wants Change and he shall have it..
SaiBaba
Saibuhari
Ambo
Baba u are welcome.

baba himself....
ebora owu....
who dares rub ur sword?

dem must bow cuz ila ko ni ga titi ko ga ju onire e lo.

Frustrated old man...tearing everything including his daughter in-law's legs. Ozu awo.