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He added, “What I am saying is that all of us have parents. When we were born, they pepped us, gave us their love, gave us everything. By the time they get old, naturally, there is what they call role reversal. We became the parents and they became the children. So, what is wrong if our parents begin to manifest those signs of old age?”

luvmijeje:
Is he indirectly saying Baba is senile? It took a prodigal president to destroy a party of 16 years. It's understandable why Obasanjo is hurt.

angelsing:
Many of u folks screaming Obasanjo is not relevant are non carrying card member of PDP, u lot talk as if u are in the circle and coffers of the PDP...One thing is certain, the way the ruling party has handle their internal affairs has cost them lots of their power and ammunition...I don't like Obasanjo even though he is from my tribe but the presidency shud have handle his own affair very well before its degenerate to this...PDP's lose is the APC's gain.

naijainfogalery:
The truth is PDP knows that when it comes to Nigerian politics, Obasanjo is a major player. This is a man the is so crafty, he knows the game, during his regime, he was able to break the hands of all opposition, there was never a unified opposition. It never worked out.

No matter how much you hate Baba you cant deny his importance in Africa's political matter.

I could remember when Baba was President. there was never a week that one African President wont come to Nigeria for help. SO what happened? we lost the little respect that Nigeria has gained for over 50 years. Its sad and pathetic, We need to retrace our footstep. And the presidency needs to opt its game.


I still believe in One Nigeria. The 2015 election is now a game between a man hunted by his past and another hunted by his presence. So would you let them ruin your future? Think Smart and vote wisely.

At this age we all should work together irrespective of our political interest

dharay99:
Fear dub dey grip una abi... PDP.

juman:
It was obasanjo that laid the foundation of destruction of pdp.

PDP was started by serious minded nigerians that fought against military rule and were eager for democracy. Obasanjo hijacked the party from them derailed the party and destroyed nigerian more because he had little interest on developing the country.

Jonathan came just managing to survive in a destroyed party

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luvmijeje:
Is it under Obasanjo watch that 5 Governors decamped to another party? Is it under Obasanjo watch PDP was christianize? Is it under his watch PDP was tribalise?

AllBusiness:
[size=30pt]I Pity the PDP, they're really struggling to know what they can do to win Buhari, but unfortunately they can't stop Buhari from winning this election. I'm ready to bet a house. Anyone wanna bet?[/size]

abacusCm:
why will I bet that with you when unborn babies in their mothers' wombs also know the fact that Buhari will win

juman:
All what you stated above are part of outcome of a destroyed part. Of course jonathan has his own blames. Jonathan has illiterate as a wife, a wife that he cannot control that also contributed to the party division.

You should remember that most of those left the party were those governors that were against jonathan second term, even as pdp members.

IbileIfe:
1000 Likes.

xtervaganza:
We have governors telling the whole world Obasanjo is the father of pdp and made them all including jona daft




And on nairaland we have trolls whose father has never smelled councillor not to talk of aso rock saying Obj is irrelevant

onatisi:
even apc will not accept obj into its party. They know he is a liability that has no electoral value . They will use him from the distance and dump him . Just wait and see .

angelsing:
I don't think Obasanjo wants to join APC he is only doing all those stuff just to spite the PDP and I don't think APC will want him on their party also but they cud benefit from his wealth of experience...Some of the PDP members are loyal to Obasanjo just like how Wike is loyal to PEJ that is why some members of the PDP are trying to beg him so as to keep his loyalist at PDP...Naija politics is a dirty game

20pounds:
I am sure OBJ is rolling in bed and smiling on reading this news. He'd fart( very loud and evil smelling) and say;

"Jonathan mumu! Useless boy from the creeks. Where were you when I liberated your people from the bondage of Ndigbo under Biafra? Oloshi!"

He'd stroke his famed civil war wound on his tigh abi knee?(Can a Nairaland lady confirm the location of the wound please?). Roll over again and let out another evil smelling fart, before spreading his arms and legs as if he wants to fly.

20pounds:
I am sure OBJ is rolling in bed and smiling on reading this news. He'd fart( very loud and evil smelling) and say;

"Jonathan mumu! Useless boy from the creeks. Where were you when I liberated your people from the bondage of Ndigbo under Biafra? Oloshi!"

He'd stroke his famed civil war wound on his tigh abi knee?(Can a Nairaland lady confirm the location of the wound please?). Roll over again and let out another evil smelling fart, before spreading his arms and legs as if he wants to fly.

RedArrow:
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on Tuesday emerged from a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, giving an indication that the Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders would beg former President Olusegun Obasanjo who dumped the party on Monday.

Lamido, who is the North-West Coordinator of Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign, told State House correspondents that Obasanjo remained the father of all.

He said Jonathan and all the state governors were creations of the former President.

He explained that it was only appropriate that “when a father is angry with his children, the children should beg him.”

Lamido said, “Baba (Obasanjo) is more than a party man. He is an icon, a national symbol and a leader and an inventor, a creator of all the institutions today in Nigeria from the President to the governors who are his own sons, are all his creations.

“And so, when a father is angry with his own children, we will only say we are sorry to him. But then, we cannot be renounced for whatever it is.

“If you do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his (Obasanjo’s) blood in us. No matter what we are, we may not be able to live up to his expectations.

“We might have made some mistakes, but abandoning us is not the solution because the country is first before anything else. So, he is our Baba even up to the President.

“Baba is our baba no matter what. He is angry with us, but then, what do we do? He gave us the life at a time when Nigerians were fighting us, he stood for us. Since 2011, in 2007, he stood firm for us.

“He is our father. And so, if we made some mistakes, we are only human because we are heading human institutions. And I think by the time he reflects, how could he abandon his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right in his heart. He feels for us, he cares for us.”

When asked to be specific on whether they would go and beg Obasanjo to return to the party, Lamido said such issue was not the kind he would announce publicly.

“When there is some kind of misunderstanding between a father and a child, you don’t go to NTA or any other media to say you are going to do this.

“I mean the bond between us is so strong. I know he is equally pained. I know what he is going through because he is our father, but I will not tell you the strategy because when he was producing us, you were not there, when he was making us, were you there?,” the governor said.

When told that some party chiefs had already said they would not miss the former President, the governor said Jonathan who he described as Obasanjo’s first child had not said so.

“But then, the first child is the President, did he say so?,” he asked.

When asked again if Obasanjo’s constant criticisms of the President did not worry him, Lamido said “when parents get old, they tend to manifest signs of old age.”

He added, “What I am saying is that all of us have parents. When we were born, they pepped us, gave us their love, gave us everything. By the time they get old, naturally, there is what they call role reversal. We became the parents and they became the children. So, what is wrong if our parents begin to manifest those signs of old age?”

Lamido insisted that despite all the perceived setbacks, the PDP would still win the forthcoming elections.

He said, “What is this opposition in Nigeria? You must know Nigerian history. Nigeria cannot be governed by an aggregate of pain, anger and frustration.



SOURCE:http://www.punchng.com/news/well-beg-obasanjo-says-lamido/

steppin:
Beg OBJ for wetin? Is he God?
The airs and graces PDP members give the old buffoon makes him feel like he's a demi-god.
The president of a country as big as Nigeria should go on his knees, just to get approval from man who is corrupt beyond his bones?
I fear Naija politics!