The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has claimed that its membership card destroyed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo was an expired one and not the valid one which is still in his (Obasanjo’s) possession.
This was disclosed by the national secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo, while receiving some student union leaders under the aegis of Student Mobilisation Network Group, (SMNG) from the University of Abuja.
The PDP national secretary, stated that the card torn by Obasanjo was the one issued by the former national chairman, Abubakar Barage, and not the one issued by the current party leadership, under Dr Adamu Mu’azu.
Following purported moves to discipline him over his attacks against their Presidential Candidate, Goodluck Jonathan, Obasanjo, had supervised the shredding of his PDP membership card while hosting some members of Ogun State PDP, at his Ota residence in the state.
“Baba is over eighty and my mother is around Obasanjo’s age and 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 Prof Wale Oladipo. So the card he tore was a Barage card, which we were going to destroy anyway. So I think Baba started it.
“Lastly, Baba is a very intelligent man. Baba was helping us. He knows that a lot of people could have complained that they could have voted for PDP but Baba is there. You know when a big tree exists in a big forest, smaller trees cannot grow.
“If that big tee leaves, 10 to 20 smaller trees will grow. In politics one big tree has one vote, while twenty 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,” Oladipo said.
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