Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described the visit
of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as
“unwarranted, unnecessary and uncalled
for”. The governor said PDP as a party must stop condoning
indiscipline, saying nobody should be treated as being bigger than the party.
He added that Obasanjo who “does not appreciate others
deserve no respect, and that no amount of mudslinging from him will stop
President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election”. The governor said
visiting Obasanjo to plead with him to rescind his decision not to participate
in the party’s activities was capable of encouraging other members of the party
to openly disrespect the office of President and Commander-in-chief of the
Armed forces of Nigeria as being done by Obasanjo.
Fayose, who called for immediate suspension of the former president from the PDP, a man who has refused to respect the office
of the President of Nigeria that he once occupied does not also deserve respect
from anyone.
He urged the party to set a panel to probe Obasanjo’s
anti-party activities.
The governor described Obasanjo as one of the major problems
of Nigeria, adding that the former president’s open castigation of President
Jonathan was unbecoming of someone who led the country for 11 years and wasted
billions of naira in his attempt to keep himself in office beyond the
constitutionally recognized two-term.
“Have you ever heard a former president of the United States
of America (USA) openly abusing a sitting president of the country?” Fayose said.
“Does it mean that former USA president, Bill Clinton agreed
with all the policies of George W. Bush and the incumbent president, Barack
Obama?
“Obasanjo is behaving unpresidentially and he must be told
respect himself.”
Speaking further, Fayose said Obasanjo was already a member
of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and that he was pushing for
one of his loyalists to be the party’s
Vice presidential candidate.
“Obasanjo is a man who can never be pleased. His principle of life is; if it is not his
way, it must not be another person’s way,” Fayose added.
“Even if President Jonathan gives Obasanjo his blood today,
he (Obasanjo) cannot change because he
is already neckdeep in the APC agenda, with his eyes on the vice presidential
ticket of the party.
“Therefore, no amount of visits by PDP governors can make
him change his mind about President Jonathan,
whom he hates not because he has not performed, but because he
(Jonathan) did not hand over his presidency to him.”
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