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Sunday 12 January 2014

Olusegun Obasanjo Dumps PDP – Says He Can’t Be in a Party With Criminals

It’s still the season of letters and the letters won’t stop rolling in. The latest one is a letter wriiten to PDP National chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo asking him to let the party disassociate themselves from a criminal like Buruji Kashamu who is still wanted in the State. It is shameful that he has a position in the party is my zone, Obasanjo said. Read the 3-paragraph letter after the cut.Dear Chairman,

While I believe that a good and truly national political party must be a microcosm of the nation in its membership, made up of all sorts of characters from near-saints to near-satan, I also believe that on no account should a known habitual criminal that is wanted abroad to face criminal charges levelled against him be extolled as a political leader in a respectable and wholesome nation-building political party.

“ Buruji Kashamu has been so extolled in PDP in South-West geo-political zone which I personally find unsavoury. Politics played by any national political party must have morality, decency, discipline, principles and leadership examples as cardinal practices of the party. I have attached here recent documents that clearly indicate that your extolled PDP Zonal Leader in the South-West zone of Nigeria and an indigene of Ogun State is, to say the least, not a credit to the party as a member, let alone being a zonal leader.

“Since I stick in my practice of party politics to the hallowed and cherished principles enunciated above, I take this opportunity to let you know that while I continue to remain a card-carrying member of PDP, I cannot and I will not subscribe to a wanted habitual criminal being installed as my zonal leader in the party; a criminal for whom extradition has been requested by the US government. In the meantime, I will consider withdrawing my activity with PDP at local, state, zonal and national levels until the anomalous and shameful situation is corrected.”

Thank you.

Yours Sincerely,

Olusegun Obasanjo

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