By TonyeBarcanista


Two days ago, President Olusegun Obasanjo at an event in his presidential library was reported to have pronounced the death of the largest opposition party in Africa, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in what patriotic Nigerians considered to be an irresponsible comment from “Baba”. According to the report, the former President opined that the death of PDP happened after the exit of himself and Chief Ahmadu Ali from the party.

Obasanjo, A Major Problem In PDP
It is unfortunate that Baba has failed to realize that he and Ahmadu Ali were part of the people that caused foundational crises in the party during their reign as President and party chairman respectively.

The party started experiencing crises shortly after Obasanjo’s emergence as President and during the buildup to the 2003 General election. Obasanjo not only destroy the various party organs and in his bid to make the party an extension of his personal property, he also removed those at the helms of affairs within the party that refused to do his bidding. He destroyed internal democracy in the party and was dictatorial to the extent that Obasanjo would unanimously remove party chieftain that criticized his leadership.

For instance, when Audu Ogbeh was Chairman of the party, he wrote a letter in 2004 to President Obasanjo lamenting on the state of affairs of the country especially with the handling of the Anambra political/leadership crises between then Governor Chris Ngige and his godfather, Chief Chris Ubah. Obasanjo was angry at Ogbeh, he threatened to send Ribadu led EFCC against him, he didn’t stop there. He went to his house, ate with him, and forced him to resign. That wasn’t enough, Obasanjo frustrated Ogbeh and his loyalists to the point that they joined then Lagos state Governor Bola Tinubu in the Action Congress.

Audu Ogbeh’s case is just one out of many. It was Olusegun Obasanjo that frustrated former VP Atiku Abubakar and his loyalists out of the party to AC by using his hatchet man, Colonel Ahmadu Ali, whom he imposed on the party as Ogbeh’s replacement. The Ali leadership of PDP announced re-registration exercise but refused to register those opponents of Obasanjo and their loyalists.

Among those that left for opposition due to the deeds of Obasanjo are late Solomon Lar, Governors Joshua Dariye of Plateau state, Boni Haruna of Adamawa state, Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state and Rasheed Ladoja of Oyo state etc.

Even out of power Obasanjo continued in his ignoble path of party dictatorship, and it was seen in his home state where he used Chief Buruji Kashamu to frustrate Governor Gbenga Daniel in 2011 and succeeded in handing party structure to Kashamu so as to produce General Tunji Olurin as the party’s governorship candidate in the election. Out of protest, Gbenga Daniel and his people refused to campaign for Olurin the party’s candidate, but instead floated a party PPN to campaign for Gboyega Isiaka, their chosen. That event led to the loss of PDP in Ogun state in that election.

Even the present crises in the PDP can also be traced to Chief Obasanjo’s 2011 decision to discard the internal gentleman North-South agreement of PDP that he midwifed in 2006 in his bid to foist President Goodluck Jonathan, his estranged godson as the party’s candidate for that year’s Presidential election. Perhaps if that gentleman agreement was respected, the PDP wouldn’t have had the crises of 2015.

Chief Obasanjo is the grandpatron of impunitive leadership. He is a man that most undemocratic governors and party chieftains learnt from. He should hide his head in shame and respect his age.

Colonel Ali Exit is A Welcome Development
As for Colonel Ahmadu Ali (rtd), he is the same man that rigged out Chief Osakwe in the PDP ticket for Delta North Senatorial District and gave the party ticket to his WIFE in 2007. But as God will have it, Chief Osakwe defected to Accord Party and won the election ahead of Ali’s wife. Is Ahmadu Ali not the same Ali that proclaimed that PDP will rule for 50 years and at the same time destroying PDP structures as Obasanjo’s hatchet man? The same Ahmadu Ali that could not win his Local Government and his Kogi state for PDP in the 2015 Presidential election despite being the Director-General of PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, an organization that misused party’s campaign funds for their own personal needs? In fact, his exit from the party is even a welcome development.

PDP, Is Very Well Alive
While I agree that PDP is not what it was in the past in terms of strength, I also believe that the party is only a sleeping giant that is undergoing a very important phase in its life in order to come out stronger and better.

For the first time, we have a party that is ready for overhaul and put the party in the path that will be of great servitude to Nigeria as envisaged by the noble founding fathers of the party. For the first time, the role of young people as an important player in the party is recognized and considered as reflected in the report of the Professor Jerry Gana Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee.

One thing I know for sure is that the road may not be smooth but as long as the party continues in this noble path it has chosen, the future is bright… Happy 80th birthday President Olusengun Obasanjo, the grandfather of undemocratic politics, I am glad to tell you that PDP is very well alive! Come 2019, the Umbrella flag shall be hoisted in Aso Rock.

Power To The People!!!




May God Bless Us All And Bless Nigeria

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Obasanjo left PDP because his relevance was called to question by PDP leaders in the SW.
Typical of the man, as soon as he don't get his way in APC he'd do the same thing.

Well said brother!

OBJ is a chameleon no doubt. PDP as a party is dead already, sheriff is only preparing it for burial.

Director-General of PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, an organization that misused party’s campaign funds for their own personal needs? In fact, his exit from the party is even a welcome development.

They took PDP money and ran

OP respect yourself and stop insulting an elder stateman on an anonymous forum
Go and face your APDP

Who still takes OBJ serious.
Betrayal is in his DNA.

PapaBaby:

They took PDP money and ran

Don't mind them. After chopping money them wan come sing another story. Nonsense people

Eledan:
OP respect yourself and stop insulting an elder stateman on an anonymous forum

When did Obasanjo become a statesman? Bro, no former leader in Nigeria is fit to be called that! NO ONE

Go and face your APDP

What is APDP?

Just one thing.

The PDP is alive yes, I want the PDP to be alive cos I like some people in the PDP. They are cool and have my support.

So the PDP is alive but who is the chairman?

Great write-up.. ....may be we should just rename this country OBJ country if that's what he wants

Pls let me have OBJ's number, we need to discuss

The chameleon from the Ijaw nation trying to correct a legend in the game.





Please go and learn more betraying skills from Edwin Clark himself.





God bless the Peoples Democratic Party.

Mynd44:
Just one thing.

The PDP is alive yes, I want the PDP to be alive cos I like some people in the PDP. They are cool and have my support.

So the PDP is alive but who is the chairman?

The "Real"chairman would be decided by the Supreme Court.

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See that compromised pro apc mod above pretending to care.

Mynd44:
Just one thing.

The PDP is alive yes, I want the PDP to be alive cos I like some people in the PDP. They are cool and have my support.

So the PDP is alive but who is the chairman?

Is this a rhetoric question or what? If truly you want the PDP to be alive(which I doubt anyway) you wouldn't have bothered to ask the chairmanship question! More like a mockery!

vayne:
See that compromised pro apc mod above pretending to care.

Thought it was just me alone that noticed

Dcomrade:

Is this a rhetoric question or what? If truly you want the PDP to be alive(which I doubt anyway) you wouldn't have bothered to ask the chairmanship question! More like a mockery!

Don't mind the guy. The question Is a bait to remind us of the Sheriff drama that will be. corrected by the Supreme Court soon

Dcomrade:

Is this a rhetoric question or what? If truly you want the PDP to be alive(which I doubt anyway) you wouldn't have bothered to ask the chairmanship question! More like a mockery!

You're right, just check his post history and you'd know APC blood runs through his vein.

Themonster:
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For President!

PDP is not dead, no way.

frontpage lalasticala and mydn too

ruggedised:
Tony we are tired of you long epistles. Spare us all this crab just because u wanna be relevant. Who even know you in pdp

Stay on topic. ..pls don't derail

Mynd44:
Just one thing.

The PDP is alive yes, I want the PDP to be alive cos I like some people in the PDP. They are cool and have my support.

So the PDP is alive but who is the chairman?

Coming from the APC mod himself?



Abi APC money don finish?

Obasanjo is just a double mouth corrupt entity.
A man who stole billions in the power ministry! In a sane country, he should be in jail.
Elder Stateman My Ass!
No wonder Nigeria is still backward, how can a man of questionable character be paraded as an Elder stateman?
We have a long way to go in Africa.

Dcomrade:

Stay on topic. ..pls don't derail

Funny but no need to beg people not to derail.... They will get tired when ignored.

BTW where is Temitemi?

TonyeBarcanista:

When did Obasanjo become a statesman? Bro, no former leader in Nigeria is fit to be called that! NO ONE

What is APDP?

Don't let your IPOB supporters cheer you on into trouble again
You've given them a room to spew their hatred

Eledan:


Don't let your IPOB supporters cheer you on into trouble again
You've given them a room to spew their hatred

Wetin bring that one here? I am for PDP and I am sure no mention of any agitating group was mentioned.

But I think you are smart, you want to turn the thread into something else...


But I don't fall for such bait

Eledan:


Don't let your IPOB supporters cheer you on into trouble again
You've given them a room to spew their hatred

leave IPOB and face him as he whip you with the cane of truth.
what is the business of IPOB in this write up?
what kind of chamelon character is this?

Amarabae:
leave IPOB and face him as he whip you with the cane of truth.
what is the business of IPOB in this write up?
what kind of chamelon character is this?

Don't fall for his bait Dear

TonyeBarcanista:
Don't fall for his bait Dear

k. It irritates me how APC want to turn Nigeria into a one party country, using all forms of intimidation to supress PDP.
Yet PDP when in power then did not intimidate them.
If PDP is dead, why are APC agitated?
Sheriff is an APC Mole planted in PDP.
In 2015, it was a 3million gap difference in the result, 2019 PDP Can bridge that gap and return to power.
The North Central will the battle ground for 2019.