PDP is half dead, Obasanjo tells Modu-Sheriff

Published on September 3, 2016 by pmnews   ·   

Obasanjo and Modu-Sheriff after the meeting

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was blunt in his response to the request for support by the factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff who visited him on Saturday at his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo said there was nothing to support as the PDP is in a state of comatose.

The former president who is noted for his witty remarks told Modu Sheriff after a closed door meeting that the party had lost its soul.

Hear Obasanjo: “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.

“The PDP of today, if you can talk of a party again as PDP, its soul has been taken out of it and those who allowed that to happen are, unfortunately, either in the country or out of the country unperturbed about the fate of the party and indeed the fate of the country.

“I have said to my brother (Sheriff), that I wish him well in the dying baby they have put on his laps, because PDP is in comatose and he was of course not in the PDP, he has never been in the PDP until now.”

Both Sheriff and Senator Ahmed Makarfi are locked in a bitter struggle for the control of the former ruling party which was defeated in national elections last year.

Obasanjo had consistently stated that he was done with partisan politics after he publicly tore his membership card of the PDP.

Attempts by various politicians to bring back to politics had been unsuccessful as the former president said he preferred the role of an elder statesman to partisan politics.