PDP Is Dying, Has Lost Its Soul – Obasanjo

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Former chairman of PDP’s Board of Trustees, Olusegun Obasanjo has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is a dying political party which is currently in comatose and needs intensive care.

The former president said this on Saturday at his Abeokuta Presidential Hilltop residence in a chat with journalists, after a closed-door meeting with a factional national chairman of the party, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff.

He recalled that the party he superintended for eight years was vibrant, but said presently it has lost its soul, saying he prayed Sheriff would not be the one to bury the party.

Obasanjo said: “And, as they all want to say now, ‘well, you were once the father of PDP’, I was once the leader, for eight years. I was the leader of PDP but the PDP that I was the leader of is not the PDP of today.

“The PDP of today, if you can talk of a party again as PDP, its soul has been taken out of it and those who allowed that to happen are, unfortunately, either in the country or out of the country unperturbed about the fate of the party and indeed the fate of the country.

“I have said to my brother (Sheriff), that I wish him well in the dying baby they have  put on his laps, because PDP is in comatose and he was of course not in the PDP, he has never been in the PDP until now.”

Obasanjo once again underlined his non-partisan stance, saying he does not belong to any political party, Sheriff’s faction nor any other faction of the PDP.