Sheriff’s visit to Obj proves he’s out to kill PDP, Fayose concludes

Fayose was reacting to the embattled factional leader’s visit to Obasanjo in Abeokuta on Saturday.

Sheriff, who held a closed door meeting with the former Nigerian president at his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta, had told reporters that he was in Abeokuta to consult with him over the current leadership crisis rocking the party.

Sheriff’s reason for the visit did not however convince Fayose, who labeled the meeting as the coming together of PDP enemies, adding that both men also collaborated to destroy the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.

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Fayose said in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka: “The meeting was a coming together of collaborators in the total annihilation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“No genuine lover of the PDP will go to the house of a man who openly destroyed his membership card and worked assiduously to ensure the party’s failure in the 2015 presidential election, to seek advice on the way forward for the PDP.

“Sheriff can as well begin to sleep in Obasanjo’s house, it is good riddance to bad rubbish.

“Since Obasanjo is no longer a member of the PDP and he has consistently maintained that he can never return to the PDP, only those in the same league with him can go about visiting him.”

The governor also accused Obasanjo of working against the PDP despite being the highest beneficiary of the party, while also warning Nigerians to beware of the former leader.

“The result of Obasanjo’s imposition of President Muhammadu Buhari on the country is the hunger and sufferings that Nigerians are facing now”, he said.

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