Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on
Saturday denied media reports suggesting
he attended an event convened by his
former party, the Peoples Democratic Party.
in Abuja.
In a text message he personally sent to
PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday morning, Mr.
Obasanjo said the reports were a ploy by
their masterminds to score “cheap political
gains”.
He also said the reports were manufactured
to embarrass or annoy him.
He said he was at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua
Centre as guest of Senator Abdullahi Adamu,
the Senate Committee Chairman on
Agriculture, when some PDP leaders
stormed the venue to great him.
“Chief Obasanjo’s resignation from party
politics is final,” the statement said.
PREMIUM TIMES’ correspondent in Ogun
State also quoted the former president as
saying, “Those who know me, know that I
have publicly announced my quitting
partisan politics and those who will believe
the purported story will believe anybody who
tells him that his or her mother is not a
woman.
“If I quit a party when it was alive and
seemingly united, how could I go back to a
now divided, factionalized party grasping for
breath?”
Later on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Obasanjo’s
office issued a more detailed statement
saying, “The attention of the former
President, His Excellency, Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo has been brought to the
photonews story, which has gone viral on
the social media on Friday, August 5, 2016
of his purported being “spotted” at a
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) event at the
Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja’,the
statement reads. ’While ordinarily his first reaction to the
news was that those behind it targeted to
get him annoyed and embarrassed him, his
conclusion was that he has told the world
that he has quit partisan politics and that is
final. Anybody hoping to drag him back will
fail like any man feeding mice to a dead
cat’,the statement added.
“To clear the minds of doubting Thomas’s
and those behind the orchestrated news in
circulation and particularly those who had
been calling to ascertain what actually
happened at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua
centre. On the invitation of the Commodities
Association Stakeholders, His Excellency,
was invited to the “Zero Hunger Nigeria”
event at the Centre’, the statement said.
“He arrived at about 10.00am and
immediately moved to the meeting. The
meeting commenced but few minutes into
the session, his attention was drawn to the
presence of some people walking up to
where he was seated.
“At closer glance, he recognized them to be
politicians and they exchanged pleasantries,
saying they came to greet him and they
walked out again from the meeting. The
former President cracked joke with them
calling them “invaders and gate crashers”.
The statement said the programme ended
and immediately Mr. Obasanjo and his
entourage headed back to Lagos.
He said he was barely hours in Lagos when
he started receiving calls from far and near
wanting to find out about his presence at a
political party programme in Abuja.
The statement added, “The photo news in
circulation, which claimed that he was
spotted at a political party event is therefore
mischievous, as a responsible journalist
ought to have gone further to ascertain his
actual destination in among the number of
venues at the centre and not taking
photograph of his alighting from his vehicle
to read another meaning. Shocking also to
note that the picture was actually taken
while on his way out of the Centre after the
programme he had attended had finished”.
“This is the height of irresponsible
journalism, which the former President is
calling for its investigation and sanction on
anybody involved in order to serve as
deterrent to others who may want to be
used either by omission or commission to
misinform the public on such sensitive
issue.”
There were reports on Friday (not in
PREMIUM TIMES) that Mr. Obasanjo was
sighted at the Yar’Adua centre in Abuja, the
same venue used by the leadership of the
PDP to inaugurate its national convention
committees.
It later turned out that the former president
was at the venue for an entirely different
engagement.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/208174-plotted-associate-dying-pdp-obasanjo.html

Ok

wailers hw una market?

We know it's a stunt by markafi led faction

picture of the text message or i don't believe it...... he went there and people saw him.... are you guys trying to break lie mohamed's record?

This one pass denial... Wailing wailers this week was just too bad.. join me in crying

Black jews see ur life

PREMIUM TIMES’ correspondent in Ogun
State also quoted the former president as
saying, “Those who know me, know that I
have publicly announced my quitting
partisan politics and those who will believe
the purported story will believe anybody who
tells him that his or her mother is not a
woman.
“If I quit a party when it was alive and
seemingly united, how could I go back to a
now divided, factionalized party grasping for
breath?”

saintikechi:
picture of the text message or i don't believe it...... he went there and people saw him.... are you guys trying to break lie mohamed's record?

The old man mentioned names and I'm sure people were presented at the two events, the onus is on them to say whether Obasanjo was at the PDP convention or not.
Don't let them ask you if your mother is a woman or not.

saintikechi:
picture of the text message or i don't believe it...... he went there and people saw him.... are you guys trying to break lie mohamed's record?

The old man mentioned names and I'm sure people were presented at the two events, the onus is on them to say whether Obasanjo was at the PDP convention or not.
Don't let them ask you if your mother is a woman or not.....

IamPatriotic:


The old man mentioned names and I'm sure people were presented at the two events, the onus is on them to say whether Obasanjo was at the PDP convention or not.
Don't let them ask you if your mother is a woman or not.....

respect sir . help your boy. Check my signature

Only little boys and little girls will take Obasanjo seriously.

The thing pain ugandans

I have nothing to say

lalasticlala.....food is ready for serving
let's make wailers nightmare perfect this weekend.....lmao

“If I quit a party when it was alive and seemingly united, how could I go back to a now divided, factionalized party grasping for breath?”

Lord have murcey!!

Whi stil need this expired old man in PDP. He was part of those that destroyed this country to this extent and brought in Buhari to finally bury it. The earlier the youth of this country knows that these old men has nothing to offer, the better for them

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