PICS Of Obasanjo Tearing His PDP Membership Card

 

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stating that, he is no longer interested in the party. He tore his PDP membership card but has not declared his interest to join any other party. The former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the ruling PDP declared this Monday morning while addressing newsmen at his Presidential Hilltop mansion, Abeokuta. To let the whole world know that he meant his decision, the Balogun of Owu Kingdom also tore his party card into shreds in the presence of newsmen.

At the conference, he announced his exit from the party and had his ward chairman tear his membership card. He says he'll stay away from party politics and remain non-partisan....what does that even mean?

He maintained that a better Nigeria remains his desire, adding that, he will do anything to achieve that. Obasanjo however advised Nigerians to go all out on the election days and cast their votes for a better Nigeria. Obasanjo was a founding member of the PDP and the first democratically elected president of the party. He was elected twice (1999 and 2003) on the platform of the PDP as president of Nigeria. But the former Head of State has increasingly become frustrated by the tactics and style of President Goodluck Jonathan in handling insurgency, the economy and more recently over the postponement of the general elections.

This action of the former president is one that would come as a surprise to many Nigerians as he has always prided himself as a card-carrying member of the PDP and rejected calls for him to quit the party since it was no longer convenient for him to condone the actions of its national leader, President Jonathan as well as other PDP big wigs.