Hope 2019 dashed for Nigeria’s opposition party, as Obasanjo says ‘God forbid I go back to PDP’
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has once again rejected overtures from leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return to the party and help it win power in 2019.
It would be recalled that Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the PDP’s reconciliation and realignment committee, Mr. Nyesom Wike, had mentioned Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku as being on the line for PDP Hope 2019 to take power back from the Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Federal Government.
Many Nigerians, who thronged The DEFENDER’s Facebook and other platforms of the social media, had swiftly rejected the mention of Tinubu, saying much as they could not boast of others they knew Tinubu going to PDP for whatever reason would be dream impossible.
Another personality on the listed names by Wike is former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who, like Tinubu, has just thrown the PDP’s dream to trash in action.
Obasanjo told the PDP National Caretaker chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi and others, who visited him in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital on Tuesday that he was done with partisan politics.
Addressing journalists shortly after the meeting with the PDP leaders, at his presidential library, Obasanjo said: ”I have also told the party chairman that before, before I was in PDP, not now. God forbid say when a dog vomit he will go back to his vomit. I’ve told him no partisan politics for me again but Nigeria is my passion until death do us part.
”And anything that concerns Nigeria, the good of Nigeria, will always have my involvement.”
The former president added that “for democracy to thrive and continue to be strong, we need a strong party in government and strong opposition party. It has to be that way, otherwise the strong party in government will get away with impunity and that is not good enough.”
He added on a lighter mood: “The chairman has come to greet me and I don greet am, so, the chairman can go home and you ladies and gentlemen of the press can go home.”
