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Obasanjo was/is a born politician but never a Technocrat.
Fashola was/is a Technocrat and wasn't/isn't a politician.
Jonathan has never been both. Being one of these two is likely to save u in the time of trouble. But the President never cares until the Political calculators took advantage of him. Don't blame anybody for ur mistake. Ur solely responsible for it.

Don't ever trust a yoruba man

I see, he made GEJ clueless. It is nobody's fault that GEJ chose to act amateurish. If he had been smart in dealing with obj, he would have gone far. But gej doesn't have leadership in him. He read zoology and animals have no opinions and they don't maneuver.

All the blame is on GEJ who chose a few social climbers to the vast majority of Nigerians.

OBJ cannot be swept under the carpet..... Not even by Asari, Gani Adams, Fasheun, Ralph (MASSOB) and the commander of Hisbah in Kano! Dare him at your own peril.

SHARIAREPORTERS:
Don't ever trust a yoruba man

Actually.....the reason why PDP lost is because of comments like yours.

OBJ was not liked by the Hausas, Igbos, even his own people. Yet....he sought them out and allied himself with as many of them as he could.(That is hw he won in 2003....and how he delivered for Yaradua in 2007).

Thing about politics...you don't have to love your allies before you can work with them. And calling all Northerners ''almajiri'', as well as calling Buhari ''certificateless''....which might have destroyed PDP's support base among the big men ex-generals.....as well as a host of other offensive comments may have cost the PDP this election in 2015....that and poor performance.

Obasanjo didn't destroy pdp, JONATHAN destroyed pdp with his daftness,weakness,indecion,feeble mindedness and stupidity. If he had done the right things and had shown enough courage and wisdom in the face of nigeria problems ppl would have voted for pdp. The bitter truth is nigerians didn't reject pdp, nigerian only solidly and strongly rejected GEJ, peopl got tired of his weakness and attitude and decided to vote for someone they believe is capable . If pdp had presented any other candidate apart from gej it is most likely that they would have won . This article is definitely sponsored by obj or his friends in order to give obj a larger than life image ,so that it would appear that obj was the real mastermind of pdp downfall. But the truth is obj only keyed himself into a movement that was already on course to victory,even if obj didn't support apc openly ,gej would still have lost . So obj contributed NOTHING to the emergence and victory of apc. Obj is an opportunist that quickly spotted where the game will end and pitched his tent there.

SHARIAREPORTERS:
Don't ever trust a yoruba man

Good.. And we the Hausas and Yorubas trusts each other and collectively distrust the Ibos

Nigeria Journalists don come again. Stop arrogating power to OBJ. Leave the man alone. Jonathan messed up, Nigerians voted him out of Aso Rock. It's that SIMPLE.

The fall of PDP is a collective thing amongst all stakeholders in the PDP. Hope they learn from their mistake. In the meantime, APC should stop all the hawks diving into their party.

God bless Nigeria

danny301:
The main factor that lead to the collapsed of PDP was/is the refusal of the party to sincerely manage the aftermath of Yar'dua's death and the subsequent emergence of GEJ as President... There was an understanding/ agreement that the presidency would be on two terms rotation between North and South but the death of Yar'adua which was not for seen by the party leaders brought an alterations into that arrangement... What I expected from GEJ and PDP was to revisit that aggrement and make some realistic and pacifiable adjustments to pacify those who felt short changed but instead of that some of them deny that existence of such agreement.... We began to hear things like, "let them go to hell with their born to rule mentality" "it's our turn" "power will never return to north again" "we are wiser now" etc . You don't rubbish the same arrangement that brought to power like that... Politics is a game of number. You need the people in order to win election everywhere in world. When the G7 staged a walkout from PDP's national conference, GEJ had the chance of bringing them back to the fold but some persons asked him to ignore them because according them the governors had no polical value and were liabilities rather than assets to the party... These myopic set of people were only looking at PDP ticket and they reasoned that if those governors majorly from north were out of the party GEJ would have no difficulty getting the party ticket. They didn't what happen to the party after somebody might have grappled the ticket either rightly or wrongly. they were too blind to see that such mass exodus could finish PDP as a party.. They trusted so much in using the power of incumbency to rig elections but they didn't know that even as an incumbent you would find it difficult to rig elections in places where you and your are nit on ground at all.. I couldn't believe that somebody actually bought the delusion and arrogance that 7 governors among other high profile politicians leaving a political party was "good radiance to bad rubbish"... PDP was later reduced to a regional party for SS/SE, yet the chest beating continued..when it became very obvious to GEJ that PDP was nolonger the national party it uded to be but a regional SS/SE in party that would not win at the national level even with rigging, election was already around the corner hence he had to shift elections and see how he would make in road into the south west and may north east but it was already too late and as the saying goes, the rest is now history... GEJ did not only lose election but PDP, the once largest party in African is at the verge of finishing (God forbid)... Obj did contribute to the fall of PDP, but more than that, insincerity, ego, hate, arrogance, insults etc destroyed our beloved PDP. The only road that leads to progress and stability is sincerity, fairness and respect.

Good Job Well done!

Sunymoore:
Good.. And we the Hausas and Yorubas trusts each other and collectively distrust the Ibos

My people, we should think about the next person as human as oneself; one important thing that we need to note is that the view of a few doesn't necessarily represent what a tribe stands for. Imagine the no of very successful inter-tribal marriages that have happened in this country; what does it tell? We cannot continue to hate each other on the basis of tribe, religion, etc but like Martin Luther King Jnr. " People should be judged by the content of their characters."

I have come across Nigerians from these three tribes that are quite wonderful people; I often times wonder why we cannot live above these primordial sentiments and live as citizens of same country. The 21st century offers so much to us if and only if we can take advantage of our diversity and make it our strength!

Obasanjo should be dragged out and shot in public square. He caused many problems in Nigeria today. He's a cancer to this country.
I wish Buhari will put him on jail for all his crimes.

GEJ had the 'Yam and the knife' He was the architect of his woes! don't heap the blame on OBJ.

Obj did not destroy pdp. Jonathan, his group of advisers and the current leadership of pdp destroyed pdp. However, if Jonathan had been in good terms with Obj from the start, Obj would have saved the party from self-implosion. Most of the politicians who defected from pdp (especially the north central and north east) wouldnt have defected because, believe it or not, Obj is good at mediating settlement between politicians at loggerheads

jayfolarin:
Was it Obasanjo that stopped jonathan from building the 2nd niger bridge?

Did obj blackmail jonathan into not building new refineries and maintaining the existing ones?

Was it obasanjo that told Gej not to fulfil his promise of a stable electricity for nigerians in 4 years?

Abi it was Obj that wrongly advised jonathan to go about dancing shoki barely 24hours after Nyanya bomb blast?

Please stop this 'everybody against Gej campaign'!! Mr President was the sole cause of his own downfall. He failed nigerians and we treated his f.uckup at the polls. Simple

If Gej didn't do any project I mean any project... Did obj did any of those things u mention in 2003 ?
If gej allows obj to have his way
Gej will still be d president
Weda he performed or not is stories for d oracle
D least u can do is protest

danny301:
The main factor that lead to the collapsed of PDP was/is the refusal of the party to sincerely manage the aftermath of Yar'dua's death and the subsequent emergence of GEJ as President... There was an understanding/ agreement that the presidency would be on two terms rotation between North and South but the death of Yar'adua which was not for seen by the party leaders brought an alterations into that arrangement... What I expected from GEJ and PDP was to revisit that aggrement and make some realistic and pacifiable adjustments to pacify those who felt short changed but instead of that some of them deny that existence of such agreement.... We began to hear things like, "let them go to hell with their born to rule mentality" "it's our turn" "power will never return to north again" "we are wiser now" etc . You don't rubbish the same arrangement that brought to power like that... Politics is a game of number. You need the people in order to win election everywhere in world. When the G7 staged a walkout from PDP's national conference, GEJ had the chance of bringing them back to the fold but some persons asked him to ignore them because according them the governors had no polical value and were liabilities rather than assets to the party... These myopic set of people were only looking at PDP ticket and they reasoned that if those governors majorly from north were out of the party GEJ would have no difficulty getting the party ticket. They didn't what happen to the party after somebody might have grappled the ticket either rightly or wrongly. they were too blind to see that such mass exodus could finish PDP as a party.. They trusted so much in using the power of incumbency to rig elections but they didn't know that even as an incumbent you would find it difficult to rig elections in places where you and your are nit on ground at all.. I couldn't believe that somebody actually bought the delusion and arrogance that 7 governors among other high profile politicians leaving a political party was "good radiance to bad rubbish"... PDP was later reduced to a regional party for SS/SE, yet the chest beating continued..when it became very obvious to GEJ that PDP was nolonger the national party it uded to be but a regional SS/SE in party that would not win at the national level even with rigging, election was already around the corner hence he had to shift elections and see how he would make in road into the south west and may north east but it was already too late and as the saying goes, the rest is now history... GEJ did not only lose election but PDP, the once largest party in African is at the verge of finishing (God forbid)... Obj did contribute to the fall of PDP, but more than that, insincerity, ego, hate, arrogance, insults etc destroyed our beloved PDP. The only road that leads to progress and stability is sincerity, fairness and respect.

you made good points....very valid.....the op too was right......both led to it....obj sow nd water d falll while GEJ nd his ilk look on in derision....deceiving themselves nothing will happen

MrKnowitall:
But you don't look any better than him.

If u c my pinshure u go cum inside your dorty boxers

Jonathan destroyed PDP.

PeeDaVinci:
Obj did not destroy pdp. Jonathan, his group of advisers and the current leadership of pdp destroyed pdp. However, if Jonathan had been in good terms with Obj from the start, Obj would have saved the party from self-implosion. Most of the politicians who defected from pdp (especially the north central and north east) wouldnt have defected because, believe it or not, Obj is good at mediating settlement between politicians at loggerheads

onatisi:
Obasanjo didn't destroy pdp, JONATHAN destroyed pdp with his daftness,weakness,indecion,feeble mindness and stupidity. If he had done the right things and had shown enough courage and wisdom in the face of nigeria problems ppl would have voted for pdp. The bitter truth is nigerians didn't reject pdp, nigerian only solidly and strongly rejected GEJ, peopl got tired of his weakness and attitude and decided to vote for someone they believe is capable . If pdp had presented any other candidate apart from gej it is most likely that they would have won . This article is definitely sponsored by obj or his friends in order to give obj a larger than life image ,so that it would appear that obj was the real mastermind of pdp downfall. But the truth is obj only keyed himself into a movement that was already on course to victory,even if obj didn't support apc openly ,gej would still have lost . So obj contributed NOTHING to the emergence and victory of apc. Obj is an opportunist that quickly spotted where the game will end and pitched his tent there.

omenka:
This is one big load of crap. Very bias piece.
Obasanjo fought Jonathan, granted. But Jonathan ultimately saw to the collapse of PDP and not Obasanjo. Had jonathan put up a good show as the president, fulfilling most of his 2011 campaign promises, kept crooks at bay instead of granting them state pardon, and not force a terrible pill down the throats of Nigerians on a new year's day, all the fight Obasanjo had put up wouldn't have amounted to more than a sneeze in a hurricane. Jonathan's abysmal performance and his reckless advisers did PDP in. End of story.

fitzmayowa:
I guess OBJ voted in all the polling unit across the federation against PDP, though some of his actions/inaction contributed to the "demise" of PDP...
In actual sense its the people that took PDP to the cleaners and not OBJ, they should stop hyping OBJ unnecessarily, they should be hyping the voters that delivered nigeria from PDP through their PVC...IMO

You all and many others have spoken nothing but the truth.

If OBJ had even done worse things than he did to destroy PDP, GEJ would still have remained the president if he had acted differently.

GEJ not only destroyed PDP but also brought his own political death on himself. QED.

HungerBAD:
I personally voted against Jonathan because of his wife.

That woman is OUT OF CONTROL and another 4 Years of Power would have seen her slapping Governors.

Jonathan is a weakling of a man, and Nigeria do not need weaklings.

He should as a matter of priority first work on his home front, and then we can take him serious. A man that can not tell his wife to dial down the tone with her Bus/Garage Rhetoric's and antics is not a man.

How can Jonathan employed Okupe who is regarded as a bastard in Yorubaland as a spokesman . Chose Buruji Kashamu a drug dealer as a Yoruba leader allowed him to to be a senator using PDP platform to get into the house. Jonathan lacked leadership skills.

m1500:
My people, we should think about the next person as human as oneself; one important thing that we need to note is that the view of a few doesn't necessarily represent what a tribe stands for. Imagine the no of very successful inter-tribal marriages that have happened in this country; what does it tell? We cannot continue to hate each other on the basis of tribe, religion, etc but like Martin Luther King Jnr. " People should be judged by the content of their characters."

I have come across Nigerians from these three tribes that are quite wonderful people; I often times wonder why we cannot live above these primordial sentiments and live as citizens of same country. The 21st century offers so much to us if and only if we can take advantage of our diversity and make it our strength!

Bros! I can swear, infact I swear to almighty God I see all Nigerians as one, I'm not a tribal bigot, I detest ethnicity.. There are many factors that bonds us together before religion and ethnicity, take for example, we are all from the the Galaxy, the milky way, we are all human beings on earth, we are from the same continent, from the same County,....... The list goes on. So I no reason why we should fight each other, instead we can use our differences as you suggested to make us more powerful, but honestly your people are not trying, sometimes one cannot take the BS, so we have to fight back because they'll see us as cowards if we let it slide!

ocelot2006:
You do know that the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge is already ongoing, right?

Still ongoing after how many years?? But GEJ advertised it has part of his achievement.. so dem never complete d construction..nawa ooo
Infact I hereby Moved that GEJ shd be impeached before May 29 for gross deceipt and political guruvalavoruos.

HungerBAD:
I personally voted against Jonathan because of his wife.

That woman is OUT OF CONTROL and another 4 Years of Power would have seen her slapping Governors.

Jonathan is a weakling of a man, and Nigeria do not need weaklings.

He should as a matter of priority first work on his home front, and then we can take him serious. A man that can not tell his wife to dial down the tone with her Bus/Garage Rhetoric's and antics is not a man.

Na ur type woman dey control

fastguy10:
I like wht GEJ did 4 nt allowing himself 2 be used by OBJ

is that the reason why he marginalised southwest in his ministerial appointment? He kept going to beg Atiku to come back to PDP instead of soliciting support from Obasanjo.

mightycrown1:
How Obasanjo destroyed PDP (2) on April 16, 2015
By Ochereome Nnanna

FORMER President Obasanjo, as we can see, used the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to rule Nigeria for eight years. As soon as he assumed office in 1999, he made up his mind to reduce Nigeria to a one-party state, his pet party system which he canvassed vigorously while Nigeria conducted its transition to civil rule programmes. The first part of this serial chronicled how he shrivelled the opposition parties and made the PDP into a colossus that dominated the political landscape. Eventually, most leading lights in the opposition parties decamped to the PDP.

By 2007 when Obasanjo was constitutionally forced out of power, PDP was at the zenith of its power and glory. It had 26 out of the 36 governors, 260 out of the 369 members of the House of Representatives, 85 out of the 109 senators and an emphatic command of the majority in the state legislatures and the 774 local councils. It was at this point that the party started priding itself as “the largest party in in Africa”, and some of its chieftains boasted that the PDP would rule Nigeria for “sixty years”.

The size of the Party was largely as a result of Obasanjo’s repression of the opposition parties, which became unattractive for politicians tocontest for power. The party was so powerful that Obasanjo suddenly developed an ambition to grab extra terms of office for himself when he was nearing the end of his constitutional two terms. To succeed, he nullified the membership of the party and ensured that all party members were re-registered. This, of course, ensured that those Obasanjo did not want in the party were weeded. These included former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu.

When his tenure elongation plans failed, Obasanjo put his Plan “B” into effect. He opted to unilaterally install his successor in office. He chose a terminally ailing Governor Umaru Yar’ Adua of Katsina state for president and paired him with a quiet, self-effacing Governor of Bayelsa State, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Vice President. He also planted his cronies as governors of the various states. He even planted them in opposition parties.

A case in point was in Imo, where the Obasanjo ordered the PDP to withdraw from the governorship race and support Chief Ikedi Ohakim, who had decamped from PDP when he failed to get the ticket at the primaries and ran on the ticket of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA).

Obasanjo’s ambition, at this juncture, was to become the Life Leader of the PDP, such that he could wield great political influence and lord it over the occupants of Aso Villa from Ota or Abeokuta.

The plan ran into storms, however. When Yar’ Adua assumed power, he refused to dance to Obasanjo’s tunes. He was determined to leave a legacy of his own. Obasanjo was not given any space to maneouvre. But unfortunately, Yar’ Adua became seriously sick and died in 2010. Obasanjo jumped out of his political doghouse and started prompting Jonathan to run on his own terms in 2011, even though many northern leaders preferred that he allowed one of theirs to replace him.

Soon, Obasanjo found out he had lost his place in the PDP even under Jonathan. It was so bad he was almost ignominiously booted out of his Board of Trustees Chairman post. In the middle of 2013, he resigned from the post. President Jonathan was later on to describe Obasanjo as “a goat seller who, after selling his goat, refuses to release the rope”. The Ota-born chicken farmer went home and started the war that led, ultimately, to the end of PDP’s reign.

In January 2014, he published one of his series of scandalous open letters to President Jonathan, accusing him of every abominable sin under the sun, including training snipers to kill his political opponents. A man under whose watch many prominent people were murdered was accusing a president who never recorded a single such incident in his five and half years as President!

Between April and May 2014, Obasanjo went round many states of the North and persuaded some of the governors he planted in power to run for president to replace Jonathan. Some of these were: Governors Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano, Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto and Babangida Aliyu of Niger. Some of these OBJ-made governors were at the forefront of the rebellion against Jonathan.

The tipping point came when five of the rebel governors decamped from PDP and joined the newly amalgamated All Progressives Congress (APC) which was put together by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and General Muhammadu Buhari.

From that point on, the rapid emaciation of the PDP could no longer be stopped. Obasanjo was relentless in his attacks on Jonathan. Apart from writing public letters, he also nudged some of his out-of-work former ministers, such as Oby Ezekwesili, Nasir el Rufai and lately, Charles Soludo, to slam the Jonathan administration each time they got the chance to go public. Obasanjo climaxed his choreography with the public tearing of his PDP membership card a couple of months to the presidential election.

Of course, PDP’s fall from power under the watch of President Jonathan was further helped by the President’s failure to take decisive steps when and where he needed to. This made him subject to blackmail. Jonathan surrounded himself with people who posed as his lovers but were actually deceivers. They took whatever they could from him and abandoned him when he needed them most. Matters were not helped by his sloppy handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, which grew from a small pox on the nose to a plague that wracked the whole nation.

Perhaps, if Jonathan had been a little more in charge and decisive, he would have prevented some of the little problems that ballooned to decide for him only one term in office. But Obasanjo was the headwind that chipped away, unchallenged, at the pedestal of his presidential power.


SOURCE - http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/how-obasanjo-destroyed-pdp-2/#sthash.c2UvA7FM.dpuf

Well written!! But I think the heading of this piece should be re-phrased as "How Obasanjo and Jonathan destroyed PDP and the country" Please take a look at your last two paragraphs.

Obj this obj that, some pple self. PDP failed cos of his wife. I can't see myself voting PDP when I know that the office of the president is under the office of the first lady. Had gej won this woman would have slapped at least three governors by now.

Naturally when one fails in an assignment the focus will be on the failure not factors leading to such failure. We can all sit in the comfort of our rooms and write whatever we fancy. Leading a country like Nigeria is never an easy assignment though some of us may think that why did he take the assignment in the first place. To this let's go back to history. In this nigeria whom among our past and present leaders went Scot free from ineptitude to clueless. Even the now President elect was butted out of office citing the above mentioned lapses. He himself ovethrew a democratically elected government of Shehu Shagari citing those lapses. Murtala Mohammed did not last a year in leadership before those who felt He was clueless cut him down. The outgoing president has tried his best. He should be left alone to chat his way. Most of those criticising now may not be able to do half of what he has positively done to the country. Even Obasanjo tearing his card letter writing has his lapses very loudly for that matter. So let's pray the incoming administration learn a lot from the past leadership. Just a reminder the President elect stated that the PDP has misruled the country for the past 16yrs that include Obasnjo and even some of his new party men such as Atiku, Kwankwaso etc. My candid opinion is for him to stop talking of misrule and face the task ahead of him. He himself was a candidate of misrule then as mentioned earlier in this piece.

like your ancestors ....ajegbodo to wenikunra

NobleG1:
Obasanjo shouldebe dragged out and shot in public square. He caused many problems in Nigeria today. He's a cancer to this country.
I wish Buhari will put him on jail for all his crimes.

Obasanjo or no Obasanjo Gej was destined to loose the election.Was it not people that voted for him in against this same Buhari in 2011 that voted him out in 2015?Just like what the writer mentioned,'the president did not take decisive steps when the need arises.He tried to shield the corrupt officials under his watch,security situation in the country became a challenge for him.In the nutshell,pdp is likened to a big house that was built on sand that is vulnerable to erosion.The party is surrouded by people of deceit,mediocres,nepotists.

HungerBAD:
I personally voted against Jonathan because of his wife.

That woman is OUT OF CONTROL and another 4 Years of Power would have seen her slapping Governors.

Jonathan is a weakling of a man, and Nigeria do not need weaklings.

He should as a matter of priority first work on his home front, and then we can take him serious. A man that can not tell his wife to dial down the tone with her Bus/Garage Rhetoric's and antics is not a man.

Spot on. It beats me hollow why GEJ.failed to keep PEJ in check. She is one of the reasons why he lost the elections.