Former President Olusegun Obasanjo played host to the National Caretaker Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, on Tuesday in a private meeting seeking Obasanjo’s at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State.
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said that God forbids he ever returns to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after dumping the party. Chief Obasanjo made the statement at the end of the meeting while addressing journalist. Senator Ahmed Makarfi had led a delegation of PDP members to the former president where he reportedly pleaded with Obasanjo to come back to the party.
And at the conclusion of the private discussion, the ex – President who barred Makarfi from speaking to journalists, saying he would speak on his behalf, said it was a meeting of two former colleagues, and did tell his guest that he was “no longer of the PDP” having “quitted partisan politics.”
“This is two colleagues meeting, two colleagues before before, when I was the President, Chairman was a Governor, two colleagues before before. I have told the Chairman that I was in PDP before but not now, ‘God forbid, say when a dog vomits, it will go back to eat its vomit, no. I have said no partisan politics for me again and not partisan politics, but Nigeria is my passion until death do us part and anything that concerns Nigeria; the good of Nigeria, you will see my involvement.
So, the Chairman has come to greet me and ‘I greet am’, and now that we’ve greeted ourselves, Chairman will be going, you gentlemen and ladies of the press, you can now go, leave the Chairman alone.I have said that publicly before and I will say it again, for our democracy to thrive and continue to be strong, we need strong party in government and strong party in the opposition. It has to be that way, otherwise party in government will get away with impunity and that is not good for democracy,” Obasanjo said.
