Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Adamu Mu’azu visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Abeokuta.
He did not disclose his mission.
Efforts to get the ex-president or his media minders to speak on the meeting failed last night.
But, according to sources, it is not unconnected with the crisis in the PDP and Obasanjo’s recent withdrawal from the party’s activities because of the involvement of Mr. Buruji Kashamu in the leadership of the party in the Southwest.
He described Kashamu as “a habitual criminal” who is wanted in the United States. But Kashamu insists he is innocent.
Mu’azu arrived at the former president’s mansion at 3:30pm in a convoy of four vehicles. He met with Obasanjo for over an hour.
It was not clear whether Mu’azu came in the company of Senator Andy Uba, who was also at Obasanjo’s home. Uba left the premises few minutes before the PDP Chairman’s arrival.
Mu’azu left around 5:40pm, speeding off in a convoy of Lexus SUVs.
But former House of Representives member Kayode Amusan, who was at the house when Mu’azu visited, said the PDP chairman was “working to rectify all that is wrong within the party”.
Amusan, who has indicated interest in the Ogun State governorship on the platform of the PDP, told reporters that Obasanjo could not be ruled out in the scheme of things.
Amusan said: “Baba is our leader, our mentor so, we can visit him any time. We are free to come to him. The new chairman has come and gone. All of us we are Baba’s sons. We can come here any time.
“Of course, apart from coming from the same state with baba, baba ruled this nation for many years. You can’t rule him out in this country.
“In a democratic dispensation, there must be regrouping, there must be alignment and there must be realignment and that is it. Let me tell you, the moment somebody comes on board, he has been brought to come and rectify and put in order all the anomalies in the party.”
According to a source, Muazu has put reconciliation with Obasanjo on his agenda to restore peace to the party.
The source said: “The new PDP chairman has the onerous task to restore peace to PDP. This is why he has decided to visit Obasanjo to lay all the cards on PDP crisis on the table and find a way forward.
“Some of the issues on Muazu’s agenda are the defection of five governors to APC, state of PDP in the Southwest, especially the control of the structure by Kashamu, the sack of Oyinlola, Segun Oni, and Bode Mustapha from the National Working Committee, and relegation of Southwest PDP to the background.
“But the most important is the face-off between the President and Obasanjo, which led to the exchange of letters by the two leaders.
“Do not forget that the situation degenerated to the extent that Obasanjo withdrew his involvement in all the activities of PDP until further notice.”
Another source said: “Many Nigerians, including ex-heads of state, have intervened in the bitter fight between the President and Obasanjo.
“Muazu is expected to crystallise this mediation. The ultimate goal is to reconcile the two leaders in the interest of the nation.
“If he succeeds, it might lead to the stoppage of the ongoing investigation of issues in Obasanjo’s recent letter to the President.”
In a one-page letter dated January 7, to the former National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Obasanjo announced his withdrawal from the party’s activities at the local, state and federal levels. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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muazo may end up reconciling issue untill 2015 is over.
ReplyDeletelet him forge ahead with active pdp member now. obasanjo or any orther person has d right to dump pdp. other can dump apc too. we all meet at 2015 polls.
PDP has done well by electing Muazu as the national chairman. He is an honest man and a man of integrity who will see black and call it black. With Muazu on board, PDP is on the way to regain the lost confidence of people.
ReplyDeletewho told u that? I think Muazu is just struggling to make reputation like others, after which he can become thieves like others. PDP has nothing to offer but they have some thing to steal
ReplyDeleteHis job is to gotand be begging looters to return to the party? We're hoping they leave.
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