Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on
Monday finally dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party by asking that
his membership card be torn.
But almost two hours after he did that,
the Ogun State PDP executive council, headed by Chief Adebayo Dayo,
announced his expulsion from the party over what it termed his “series
of unabated anti-party activities.”
The former President was hosting the
executive and members of the party from Ward 11, Abeokuta North at his
Hilltop residence when he announced that he was dumping the PDP.
The ward Chairman, Alhaji Usman
Oladunjoye, who led the delegation, had told Obasanjo that they were on
the visit to verify reports on a plot to suspend him from the PDP.
After he had thanked them for their
concern and narrated how the Goodluck Jonathan administration had almost
run the country aground, he said, “They said they want to expel me from
the PDP, although I have not been told that; I have my ears to the
ground.
“We have been trying to run away from a mad man but he pleads we wait for him at the other side of the river.
“I have told you before that I became
President on the platform of the PDP and once I leave the party, I will
not join any other party.
“I will only be a Nigerian, I am ready
to work with anybody regardless of political affiliation. Why would some
people say they want to send me away.
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