Just as a dog doesn’t return to its vomit, I’ll never go back to PDP, Obasanjo tells visiting Makarfi

The chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic (PDP) Ahmed Makarfi, and his entourage got a rude shock when they paid former President Olusegun Obasanjo a visit in Ogun State on Tuesday
The former president, had in unambiguous terms told journalist after the visit that just as “dogs” never go back to their “vomits” that he will never return as a PDP member.

Makarfi had visited Obasanjo in the company of a former minister, Sarafa Isola, and some others. They were welcomed by the former president at his Green Legacy Hotels and Suites located in Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta.

Makarfi and Obasanjo met privately behind closed-doors at the grill house section of the hotel soon after the visitors’ arrival at about 10:05am.

Although the reason for the visit and the details of the meeting were not clearly stated, there were however speculations that the visit was not unconnected with the frantic efforts the former ruling party has been making, since after its protracted crisis, to return to power.

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Obasanjo had openly supported current President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against his own party presidential candidate and then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, in 2015 general elections.

The event of 2015 has therefore made some Nigerians to suppose that Makarfi visited Obasanjo to ensure that the PDP will not lose his support in 2019 as it did in 2015.

But confirming what the party may have feared for, Obasanjo had told journalists after he met with Makarfi, “I will never return to the PDP, just like a dog would never return to its vomit.”

 

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