Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday morning dumped the Peoples<\/p>\n
Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n
He handed over his PDP membership card to the Ward 11 leader in Abeokuta
\nNorth local government, Alhaji Surajudeen Oladunjoye instructed him to
\ntear it.<\/p>\n
Oladunjoye, who led about 350 members of the ward to a fact-finding
\nmission at the Obasanjo’s residence, tore the card into shreds to the
\nadmiration of the party followers, some of whom also tore their cards.<\/p>\n
Addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, he said if his involvement in partisan
\npolitics would stop him from having a better Nigeria, then he is ready to
\nsacrifice membership of the PDP and become a statesman.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo who was responding to enquiry on rumour to expel him from the
\nparty, directed his aide to get his membership card and few minutes later
\nhe was given, throw it away, declaring that “if this is why we cannot have
\nthe Nigeria we desire, I am no longer part of this.”<\/p>\n
Obasanjo who is a founding member of the ruling party ruled Nigeria from
\n1999 to 2007 for two terms of eight years. He had led the country as a
\nmilitary head of state from 1976 to 1979.<\/p>\n
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