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Obasanjo Gives Condition To Support Proposed Mega Party by okosujacob(m): 12:08pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Amid rumours of plots by some political heavyweights
across party lines to float a new mega party that will
challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives
Congress, APC, in 2019, former president, Olusegun
Obasanjo, has allegedly given a stringent condition to
support the proposed mega party.
While he was said not to be averse to the emergence of a
new formidable opposition party, Obasanjo, according to
ThisDay, gave a condition that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who
was his deputy between 1999 to 2007, should not by any
means whatsoever become such party’s presidential
candidate in the 2019 elections.
It is been speculated that the opposition party, still in the
works, enjoys the tacit support of some members of the
Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, that currently controls 11 states in
the country, and is also promoted by APC bigwigs like: Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, and Atiku Abubakar.
Sources close to the ex-president informed the newspaper
that when proponents of the new party approached
Obasanjo to lend his support to the move, he told them that
he was prepared to back it on the condition that Atiku will
not be picked as the presidential candidate of the party.
“He (Obasanjo) addressed the group that met with him,
informing them that he had made too many mistakes in his
life and for the nation, including the blanket support he
claimed to have granted the All Progressives Congress
(APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, and therefore
was not prepared to make any more mistakes,” said a
source conversant with the outcome of the meeting with
Obasanjo.
The former president reportedly continued that although he
was quick to support the APC, however, he was never in a
hurry to support Buhari’s bid to become president in 2015
because he had reservations about his capacity to lead the
country, adding that because the APC to which he had
declared his support had also settled for Buhari, he had no
option than to tag along.
He informed his guests that considering the prevalent state
of the nation and political developments, it would be
foolhardy of him to rush into taking yet another critical
decision, especially on the presidency of the country.
It was for this reason he was said to have reluctantly
supported the idea of the mega party, but added that he
would only identify with it if his erstwhile deputy does not
emerge the presidential candidate of the party.
Obasanjo was said to have pointed out that Buhari’s
apparent unimpressive stewardship to date had lent
credence to his initial hesitation to support him and that
having worked with Atiku, he could tell the kind of
presidency he would run.
He reportedly made it clear to the proponents of the mega
party that their presidential candidate could be anybody
with the minimum requisite qualifications and experience,
but certainly not the former vice president.
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Re: Obasanjo Gives Condition To Support Proposed Mega Party by Ultimategeneral: 1:41pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
Hmmmm! I dey laff |
Re: Obasanjo Gives Condition To Support Proposed Mega Party by Justiceleague1: 2:24pm On Dec 06, 2016 |
a whole lotta top shots are acknowledging and regretting the mistake they made in supporting APC/Buhari last year...buh pride and shame wont allow the excess afonjas on here to confess and repent ![]() Obj,pls,shine ur eyes o,u know u command a lotta respect and not a few are at ur beck and call. |
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