Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday morning dumped the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
He handed over his PDP membership card to the Ward 11 leader in Abeokuta
North local government, Alhaji Surajudeen Oladunjoye instructed him to
tear it.
Oladunjoye, who led about 350 members of the ward to a fact-finding
mission at the Obasanjo’s residence, tore the card into shreds to the
admiration of the party followers, some of whom also tore their cards.
Addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, he said if his involvement in partisan
politics would stop him from having a better Nigeria, then he is ready to
sacrifice membership of the PDP and become a statesman.
Obasanjo who was responding to enquiry on rumour to expel him from the
party, directed his aide to get his membership card and few minutes later
he was given, throw it away, declaring that “if this is why we cannot have
the Nigeria we desire, I am no longer part of this.”
Obasanjo who is a founding member of the ruling party ruled Nigeria from
1999 to 2007 for two terms of eight years. He had led the country as a
military head of state from 1976 to 1979.