guests at his Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta with bated breath
when he tore his Peoples Democratic Party 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.
The Drama Continues .......
