Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday left his guests at his Hilltop
mansion in Abeokuta with bated breath when he tore his Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) membership card in their presence.
The
guests, who are leaders of the PDP from Obasanjo’s ward around his
former residence in Ita Eko, where he registered, visited the
ex-president to express their concern with his recent utterances against
the government of President Goodluck Jonathan and what he considered as
the President’s role in the postponement of the general elections from
February to March.
Obasanjo
had alleged on Saturday that Jonathan had a “grand plan” to scuttle
democracy in the country through the poll shift, accusing the President
of trying to win the presidential poll “through hook or crook.”
The guests
in Abeokuta had told the former Head of State that they had come to
plead with him to stop his criticisms of the incumbent president.
They also
informed him of the feelers that they were getting that the leaders of
the party were planning to expel him from the party.
Obasanjo asked his guests if they were with their PDP membership card, which some of them produced.
He subsequently asked for his own, which someone brought to him.
He then
directed the leader of the team to tear the card in shreds, telling the
visitors that he was no longer a member of the ruling party.
The former
president had last year resigned his membership of the party, when he
was the Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, arguing that he could
no longer be in the same party and be led in the South-West by someone
he referred to as a confirmed drug baron.
Credit:ChannelsTV
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