As criticisms and commendations continue
to trail his dramatic exit from the Peoples
Democratic Party, former President
Olusegun Obasanjo has explained how he
arrived at the decision to dump the party
to which he belonged for 16 years.
The former president had Monday
announced his resignation as a member of
the party on whose platform he ruled the
country between 1999 and 2007.
Mr. Obasanjo renounced his membership
of the PDP when some leaders of the party
led by Surajudeen Oladunjoye, the
chairman of the ward around his former
residence in Ita Eko, visited him at his
Presidential Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta
home.
The former president directed Mr.
Oladunjoye to tear his membership card at
a press conference organised during the
visit.
About two hours later, the PDP leadership
in Ogun State announced the expulsion of
the former president from the party.
However, in a telephone interview with
PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday, Mr. Obasanjo
explained that the PDP members visited
him to express their genuine concern
about his refusal to be active in the party.
“They were concerned that I had only one
leg in the party, and worried that since
I’m their leader in the ward, they need to
hear from me,” the former President said.
According to him, when the party
members arrived his residence, they were
singing a song in Yoruba language –
“Nigeria yi ti gbobgo wa ni, Ko ma gbodo
ba je. Eje ka sowopo kajo gbega (Meaning
– Nigeria belongs to all of us, we must not
allow it to be destroyed and we must join
hands to make it great).
Mr. Obasanjo said when they settled down
he sought to know why they came and that
it was at that point that Mr. Oladunjoye
told him that since he (Obasanjo) as their
leader became angry with the PDP and
remained inactive in the party, they had
not only lost sense of direction but also worried about their
political future.
He also said the party members informed him that the
leadership in the state was planning to expel him and that
they wondered what would happen to them if he was
expelled because they would become rudderless.
“You are our leader and it is you we are following. You
have remained a card-carrying member of the the party.
But since you became angry with the party we have lost
sense of direction and now we are hearing that they want
to expel you. If they expel you, where do we go? What do
we do?” Mr. Obasanjo quoted the ward chairman as
saying.
The former president explained that it was at that point
that he gave them his PDP membership card and told them
that they could do whatever they want with it.
He said, “In my response, I said when you people came you
were singing a song and I agreed that Nigeria is our own.
If the issue is the party, I will not choose the party at the
detriment of Nigeria and I will fight for Nigeria even at the
detriment of the party. I will rather surrender my
membership of the party so you people can move on
politically,” Mr. Obasanjo explained to PREMIUM TIMES.
“If you people’s worry is that I’m a card-carrying member
of the party and I’m not showing you people direction and
you are worried that I’m neither here nor there, this is the
card; you can keep it, you can burn it or you can tear it, do
whatever you want to do with it.”
The former president said he then handed over his
membership card to Mr. Oladunjoye, who immediately
decided on his own to shred it.
Mr. Obasanjo said he had no regrets for his action despite
the criticisms that have greeted it.

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