The Ball is in Your Court, Obasanjo Replies to Tukur’s Appeal to Stay in PDP

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to the appeal by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur not to leave the party.

Obasanjo insisted that he should address the issues raised in his letter saying that entreaties to him to reconsider his withdrawal from the party were wrongly based.

The PDP Chairman had pleaded with the former President Olusegun Obasanjo to rescind his decision of leaving the party, adding that the PDP still needs Obasanjo’s fatherly role and experience to get the party on strong footing and to make it more formidable.

Tukur’s appeal was in response to the former President letter where he raised some issues related to the PDP in the country’s South-West geo-political zone.

The letter had also conveyed Obasanjo’s decision to withdraw from participating in the party`s politics at all levels.

But Obasanjo in his response to Tukur’s appeal Noted that he had raised issues and conditions for him to involve himself in the affairs of the party, he said that the national leadership should address those issues in its stead.

Among the conditions raised by Obasanjo in his fiery letter was that Buruji should be brought down from his place of prominence in the affairs of the party. Obasanjo had said that he would not subject himself to the leadership of a suspect fleeing from justice in the United States.

Obasanjo who spoke through his media aide, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye said: “President Obasanjo wrote a letter and in that letter there were conditions, there were issues he raised and he is a member and card carrying member of PDP but he is not going to participate in activities of the party until the issues he raised are addressed.”

“So the question should not be to Obasanjo, your question should be to the people who received the letter and to how they are going to address the issues he raised.”
“The letter said until certain issues are addressed. The letter is very clear, “I am with you, I remain a member, but I will not participate in your activities until you address the issues. The question is has he addressed the issues?”

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