I Cannot Accept an Addicted Drug Baron as Party Zonal Leader – Obasanjo

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who recently got an apology from top members of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Sunday, said he has no grudge against anybody in the party.

In a statement on Sunday, Obasanjo described the plea to come back to the party as wrong and a great misrepresentation, Punch reports.

“Talking of inviting me back to the PDP is wrong and it is a great misrepresentation as I have never left the PDP and I will never leave the PDP. I have said it before and I will say it again, I rose to become the President of Nigeria on the platform of the PDP and for that reason alone, I will remain a card-carrying and ward-active member of the PDP for as long as I have to be a political party member.”

“I have had occasions to say to the President (Goodluck Jonathan), the Senate President (David Mark) and the party chairman separately that I have no quarrel with any individual or group in the party. There are, for me, issues of principle, morality, honour, integrity, commitment, and character which are paramount.”
“For instance, as a former President of Nigeria, the Chairman of West Africa Commission on Drug and a member of the Global Commission on Drug, I cannot accept that the zonal leader of my political party and, worse still in my zone, will be an indicted drug baron wanted in America. How do I explain that to friends outside Nigeria? This is only one of the many issues that I have pointed and still pointing out.”

By the indicted drug baron wanted in America, he meant Mr. Buruji Kashamu as the Chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation committee of the party in the South-West, do you agree with him?