Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has called for prayers for Nigeria never to sink like the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying the party was completely dead.
He spoke in Abeokuta on Friday at the display of 40 African traditional drums in his honour to celebrate his 80th birthday organized by the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library.
The former PDP Board of Trustees chairman said the is now a shadow of itself as a result of protracted internal wrangling. Responding to the former national chairman of the party, Alhaji Ahmadu Ali’s comment on their past relationships in government, said Ali as the national chairman ensured stability and effectiveness in the party. “When all was going well, when Ahmadu Ali was the chairman of the party, we were 30 out of the 36 states. I brought Ahamdu Ali as the national chairman of the party. But when Ahmadu and I left, the fortunes of the PDP sank,” he said.
“May the fortune of Nigeria never sink like that of the PDP,” he said as the audience responded with a thunderous, “Amen.”
Earlier at the international symposium held to commemorate his birthday, the former president said the presidential library project was made by God for him to correct his past wrongs.
