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Obasanjo to Sheriff: I pray you don’t bury PDP

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Obasanjo to Sheriff: I pray you don’t bury PDP

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, said he prays the embattled factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, would not be the one to bury the PDP.

Obasanjo, who restated his earlier statement that the PDP is in comatose and dying, said this after a closed door meeting with Sheriff at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta.

According to Obj, PDP was a vibrant party when he was the leader, insisting that the party has lost its soul and that he prayed that Sheriff would not be the one to bury the party.

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He said: “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.

He reiterated the need for the country to have a strong ruling party as well as a very strong and viable opposition. He noted that neither the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition party, PDP, was delivering on these expectations at the moment.

By Timothy Enietan-Matthews…

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