The Nigeria Posterity Project (NPP) has described the exit of former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as good riddance to bad rubbish.
For a man who ran the PDP as his personal estate during his tenure as President, a man who brooked no opposition and was intolerant of opposing views, his unquenchable desire to control the apparatus of
the PDP even after he had left office is legendary.
Obasanjo has by his self-conceited nature displayed his lack of decorum by publicly tearing his PDP membership card; an act we consider childish, dishonourable and portrays him as someone who
subscribes to the principle of pull him down syndrome if he doesn’t have his way.
A man with an over-bloated ego who behaves very much like a cry baby, he has displayed his crude antecedents through his unrelenting scathing criticism of every administration, including that of
President Goodluck Jonathan.
Obasanjo is a man without scruples because the same people he considered unfit for any elective office in the recent past under his watch are the same people he is ironically working hard to install
into power.
Nigerians still remember vividly how he employed uncouth language in responding to perceived political opponents and those opposed to his style of leadership.
We are of the view that apart from lacking in electoral value, as he has been known to have lost election in his own polling since 1999, Obasanjo in our opinion has become a distraction to the present
administration.
We warn Obasanjo not to choose a destructive part by undermining the nation’s democratic journey, knowing full well that the country is greater than anybody or group of persons.
While we wish him good luck in his new political journey, we however, admonish the PDP and the President Jonathan administration not to allow Obasanjo’s departure distract their focus or dampen their morale and commitment to the enormous task ahead in the rescheduled presidential/National Assembly poll of March 28 and the governorship/state Houses of Assembly elections on April 11.
