IT IS SETTLED: Obasanjo’s Loyalists Dump PDP and Join APC

The political calculation for 2015 is finally taking sharp and showing clear signs of thing to come:

Loyalists of President Olusegun Obasanjo in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have dumped the party and joined the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress. Here is what a top member of the PDP National Working Committee has to say on the development:

“I am aware that their grouse is mainly that they have been sidelined. All the points raised by Obasanjo in his letter to the former PDP chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, have not been addressed. 

“We continue to behave as if we do not want the old man and his supporters in the party. Mu’azu promised to address those points when he visited Baba (Obasanjo) in January, but nothing has been done.”

According to Punch, the Obasanjo’s supporters, particularly those in the South-West, left the PDP because they felt that they had been sidelined in so many ways and nothing is being done by those Obasanjo helped to get to office to address the situation.

In fact, they would have left the PDP early this year, but they were prevailed upon by Obasanjo to remain in the party after the visit of PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, to him in Abeokuta on January 26.

Obasanjo had, in a letter to PDP Chairma, stated that the party was negating the principles of morality. Part of the letter read, “While I believe that a good and truly national political party must be a microcosm of the nation in its membership, made up of all sorts of characters from near-saints to near-satan. Kashamu Buruji has been so extolled in PDP in South-West geo-political zone, which I personally find unsavoury. Politics played by any national political party must have morality, decency, discipline, principles and leadership examples as cardinal practices of the party. I have attached here recent documents that clearly indicate that your extolled PDP Leader in the South-West zone of Nigeria and an indigene of Ogun State is, to say the least, not a credit to the party as a member, let alone being a zonal leader.”