Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has advised the Peoples Democratic Party to respect other political parties in the grand alliance of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) to ensure success of the process.
Obasanjo also urged all member political parties to be cautious of fake news, rumours, blackmail, and seeds of discord that may be sown among them from external quarters.
Obasanjo said this while playing host to a twenty-one-man delegation of the Committee of National Working Committee of the PDP led by the National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus which paid him a courtesy call at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta .
Both Obasanjo and the delegation held a closed door meeting and had a breakfast working meeting.
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The meeting which lasted for about four hours was said to have been used to assess the extent of development recorded on the plan by PDP to form alliance with other political parties to wrest power from All Progressives Congress in 2019 election reportedly begged the ex-President to rejoin the party.
Obasanjo in his remarks advised the individuality and independence of each political party must be observed and respected by all parties concerned.
He also said that it is desirable that in the process of implementing the MOU to achieve the set objective, solidarity and focus on the objective must be maintained.
The former President reminded the committee that on adoption of ADC as political party of the CNM, he had maintained that he will not be a member of any political party but he will make himself available to guide any party that wishes to be so guided and he has offered such guidance to ADC.
He said while he may make himself available to any other party that will require it, service to ADC will be paramount.
He equally pointed out to the committee that before their prompting he had put his hands on the ground and there is no looking back.
That he will join men and women in the country, and if necessary lead them, in retrieving and saving the country from shipwreck.
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Obasanjo urged the PDP to pay attention to four issues that he said were needed to bring PDP back to a party of good image, discipline, commitment, leadership and moral principles.
He also lauded the party for apologising on behalf of the party and made reference to the Lord’s Prayer,which he said contains a statement that taught men to ask God for forgiveness and to grant forgiveness to others. He further underlined the pitiable situation of Nigeria today and the inexcusable killing and insecurity almost all over the country and the unprecedented division of the country all of which the present government seems to have no credible solution Earlier,the national Chairman of the party while speaking on behalf of the delegation and the party, apologised to the former President for what he described as bad conduct and mistreatment of him by the PDP that led to his exit . Secondus also told Obasanjo how the felt about what he called distress and prostrate situation of the country and as well gave the progress of the Memorandum of Understanding on grand alliance of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP).
He, however, appealed to the former President not to be tired of giving leadership to save the country from what he described as “the throws of mismanagement and shipwreck”.
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Secondus said “it has been made clear that the MOU for grand alliance is what it says, a grand alliance. It is not a merger nor an absorption of any political party by any political party.
It is clearly for the parties which agreed to be members of the alliance to work together to achieve one important common objective at the national level for the election of 2019 and where it is appropriate and necessary members may also form alliance and cooperation at the state level”.