According to the National Secretary of the PDP, Professor Adewale
Oladipo, the PDP membership card torn by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo on February 16th had long expired as it was signed by a former
acting chairman of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje who is now a chieftain in the APC.
According to Professor OLadipo, Chief Obasanjo is
over 80 years old and there are certain actions people of his age take that
they themselves can't explain. Prof Oladiposaid this while speaking to a
group of students who came to show their solidarity for President
Jonathan at the party's National secretariat in Abuja yesterday
"Baba
is over 80 and my mother is around Obasanjo’s age. When you reach that
age, you do things that only you can explain. Secondly, you will see
that Baba did not tear our card. He asked
somebody ostensibly to do the tearing and I am assuring you that the
card that was torn was not the current PDP card. The current PDP card is
signed by Mu’azu and Professor Oladipo. So
the card he tore was a Baraje card, which we were going to destroy
anyway. So I think Baba started it. Lastly, Baba is a very intelligent
man. When Baba was helping us, he
knew that a lot of people could have complained that they could have
voted for PDP but Baba was there. You know when a big tree exists in a
big forest, smaller trees cannot grow. If that big tree leaves, 10 to 20
smaller trees will grow. In politics, one big tree has a vote, while 20
small trees have 20
votes. If you do the arithmetic, I am a scientist, I know that head or
tail, it is a win win situation for PDP,” he said.
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