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Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by Anasko(m): 4:38pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
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
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Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by dareyyyy(m): 4:42pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
Ok |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by Anasko(m): 4:44pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
wailers hw una market? 2 Likes |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by SonofDevil: 4:45pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
We know it's a stunt by markafi led faction |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by saintikechi(m): 4:47pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
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? |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by usba: 4:48pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
This one pass denial... Wailing wailers this week was just too bad.. join me in crying 1 Like
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Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by hannyjay(f): 4:50pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
Black jews see ur life |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by Businessideas: 5:18pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
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?” 6 Likes |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by IamPatriotic(m): 5:19pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
saintikechi: 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. 3 Likes |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by IamPatriotic(m): 5:22pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
saintikechi: 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..... 1 Like |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by ayooladee(f): 5:23pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
IamPatriotic:respect sir . help your boy. Check my signature |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by PFRB: 5:38pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
Only little boys and little girls will take Obasanjo seriously. |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by babyfaceafrica: 5:45pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
The thing pain ugandans |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by Presbulg(m): 5:59pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
I have nothing to say |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by Akinrogun(m): 6:18pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
lalasticlala.....food is ready for serving let's make wailers nightmare perfect this weekend.....lmao |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by Progressive01(m): 6:20pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
“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!! |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by g4everybody(m): 8:25pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
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 |
Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by alizma: 8:27pm On Aug 06, 2016 |
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Re: Why They Plotted To Associate Me With A Dying PDP — Obasanjo by saintikechi(m): 1:03pm On Aug 08, 2016 |
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