PDP in comatose, needs intensive care, says Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the Peoples Democratic Party, as a dying political party that is currently in comatose and needs to be taking to an intensive care unit.

He said this on Saturday at his Abeokuta Presidential Hilltop residence in an interview with journalists, after emerging from a closed-door meeting with a factional national chairman of the party, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff, which lasted for close to one hour.

The meeting which was not unconnected with current crisis rocking the party, Obasanjo said Sheriff called him on Friday that he was coming to visit him, and he had to oblige him.

The former president explained that the factional chairman had briefed him what exactly was happening in the party.

Obasanjo, who was a former chairman of PDP’s Board of Trustees, said the party he superintended for eight years was vibrant, but currently it has lost its soul, adding that he prayed that Sheriff would not be the undertaker that would bury the party.

He noted that those who annihilated the soul of the party, were either still in the country or outside the country, feeling unperturbed about its current fate and that of the nation.

He said, “And, as they all want to say now, ‘well, you were once the father of PDP’, I was once the leader, for eight years. I was the leader of PDP but the PDP that I was the leader of is not the PDP of today.

-Punch