ABUJA (Sundiata Post) – Cairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, has said his predecessor, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, will not be missed by the leaders of the party.
Obasanjo, who was president for eight years on the platform of the party, had hours earlier publicly torn his membership card of the party in his Abeokuta home, renouncing the party.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
Emerging from a meeting of PDP chieftains at the Presidential Villa, Anenih however, told State House correspondents that Obasanjo had the right to quit or join any political party of his choice as a Nigerian.
The BoT chairman said, “He (Obasanjo) has the right to leave any party, and he has the right to join any party, he is a Nigerian”.
Asked if PDP would miss Obasanjo, Anenih replied, saying “why should we miss him?”
On whether former president’s exit was not a big loss to the party, Anenih said “to us leaders it is not a loss.”
Obasanjo has been critical of President Goodluck Jonathan’s style of governance, and only at the weekend alleged that the polls shift was masterminded by the president to skew the result of the elections in his favour.
He had also in an audience in Kenya last week, endorsed Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2015 elections. But in another audience in London, Obasanjo denied doing so.
