David Mark, Mu’Azu, Daniel beg Obasanjo

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday tendered an unreserved apology to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The party appealed to the former President to return and lead the party.

Obasanjo, a former Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, has refused to identify with the party following series of disagreements he has with President Goodluck Jonathan and the running of the party.

The former President even as the chairman of BoT of the party, did not attend meetings of the various organs of the party, including its National Executive Committee.

The former President had criticised President Jonathan on many occasions and even written an open letter to him, in which he accused him of many atrocities.

But speaking while receiving a former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, who defected from the Labour Party to the PDP in Abuja on Wednesday, the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’Azu, begged Obasanjo to come back to the PDP.

Mu’azu, who was reacting to an earlier apology offered by Daniel, said every member of the party must beg the former President for forgiveness.

He said, “I want to join OGD, I want to join my dear senior brother and indeed all the teeming members here to very sincerely apologise to our leader, to our baba, my baba, General, President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to forgive us.

“We will not agree even if you want to throw the baby away with the bath water, the baby will not go without you.

“So, please baba, we apologise. Come and lead us. Even the President (Goodluck Jonathan) is waiting for you. Come and lead us. You are our leader, we appreciate you, we thank you for your leadership.

Before Mu’azu spoke, the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark had also appealed to the former President to forgive the party and its members.

He said it would be wrong for Obasanjo to abandon the party he laboured to build.

He said, “Daniel is right that older persons are always right. All of us in the PDP are begging Baba to forgive us even if he is annoyed with us.”