Punchng:

Obasanjo won’t be sanctioned for anti-Jonathan
comments – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party has said it will not sanction
former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his negative
comments on the party and President Goodluck Jonathan.
Rather, it said it would continue to celebrate him over his
achievements and the role he played in the party.
The National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo, who
disclosed this in a telephone interview with our
correspondent in Abuja during the week, said Obasanjo
remains a member of the party.
Oladipo said, “No, we can’t sanction Baba Obasanjo. He is
our leader and our father. We will continue to appeal to him
to sheathe his sword and work with us. But I believe he
might have been quoted wrongly in some of the statements
credited to him in the newspapers.
“Baba loves us and we love him. But I want to emphasise
that we can’t and we won’t sanction him.”
Meanwhile, our correspondent had gathered that the
national leadership of the party and the Presidency were not
comfortable with the criticism coming from its former
national leader, even though they had done everything
possible to pacify the former president but to no avail.
The former president had accused President Jonathan of
squandering oil revenues, adding that the President was a
bad manager of resources. He also said he would not
sacrifice his life for any party’s (PDP) interest.
On the contest for votes between the party and the All
Progressives Congress in the South West in the upcoming
elections, the National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu, said PDP had worked enough to earn the confidence
of the voters in the zone. He said anyone who thinks the
party would come last in the upcoming election must be
ready for a shocker.
Muazu said, “The assumption is that the PDP will play
second fiddle to the APC in the South West in this election,
but those who have such an assumption are in for a shocker
because the PDP has worked very hard over the past four
years in wards and local government areas of the entire
South West geopolitical zone.
“We are confident the opposition will find themselves in the
shades far behind because people in the South West are
very intelligent people; they don’t just throw away their
votes, they calculate and discern the characteristics of the
Presidential candidates before they commit their votes.
“With Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, our former President and
Board of Trustees Chairman, there (in Ogun), we believe he
will not work against us despite what people assume in the
contrary, we will win.”

DonaldGenes:

Empty and needless rhetorics, iMust say
Who in PDP circle even got the Political Balls to challenge a whole Baba talk less of slapping him with a Sanction? Show me One
Them de Kraze