Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is said to be fretting over the possible emergence of a consensus aspirant from the north to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary.

His situation, sources said, was worsened by the steady inroad of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) into the region and the brewing trouble in the south west caucus of the PDP.

Consequently, Obasanjo is said to be mobilising the party members to ensure that they deliver bloc votes to Jonathan at the primary election where only delegates count. He was also reported to be moving to reconcile all the warring factions in the zone to achieve the goal of delivering the presidential ticket.

To this effect, he appointed Third Republic senator, Yinka Omilani, who is also a former National Vice chairman of the party to spearhead the reconciliation process.

Investigations however, showed that the PDP in South West seems to be in disarray following series of intra-party squabbles in most of the states in the region. The development is said to be giving Obasanjo and other party leaders' goose pimples, particularly fearing that the hope of delivering 100 percent of votes to Jonathan at the polls may go up in flames.

“The party is highly polarised and it is self inflicted, because of it, Chief Obasanjo has been holding meetings with stakeholders in all the South West States with the aim of calming frayed nerves and reconcile all as the election draws nearer. But he seems not to be impressed with the turn of events as the situation gets worse.

“For instance, in Ogun State, the State Governor, Gbenga Daniel is still at logger heads with some prominent stakeholders, which include a close associate of 'Baba', Chief Sule Onabiyi. Besides that, the party is yet to resolve the controversy of where to zone the governorship. You know also the problem in Oyo State where there is altercation between Governor Alao Akala and the Ibadan elites. It is also the same situation in Osun State, where the Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola is facing the heat for endorsing Senator Iyiola Omisore as his successor in 2011.

“We have lost Ekiti and Ondo State has gone to the Labour Party and of course, the Lagos Chapter situation is well known. In that case we cannot afford to sleep when our house is on fire,” said the source.

Further, the source informed leadership that the Ibadan resolution is now being threatened by the crisis rocking the party in the zone. "And this is not good because the resolution was meant to make the zone a stronghold of the Jonathan-Sambo ticket.

Omilani, the source disclosed, is now engrossed in the Osun crisis to resolve the Omisore endorsement imbroglio. "He has met with other aggrieved party chieftains in Osogbo twice, but may have run into a brick wall. Other gubernatorial aspirants led by the former Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade and the former chief of Staff to the governor, Peter Babalola are threatening that they would collectively defeat the party if Omisore emerges the candidate.

“Right now they are threatening to leave the Labour Party or ACN, this we don’t want because it could affect Jonathan’s chances at the polls,” he said.

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