National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Professor Wale Oladipo, has insisted that the party would not penalise former Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, over what it termed negative comments on the party and President Goodluck Jonathan.
Instead, Oladipo maintained that the PDP would continue to celebrate him over his achievements and the role he played in the PDP.
The National Secretary of the ruling party argued that, "No, we can’t sanction Baba Obasanjo. He is our leader and our father. We will continue to appeal to him to sheathe his sword and work with us.
"But I believe he might have been quoted wrongly in some of the statements credited to him in the newspapers.
“Baba loves us and we love him. But I want to emphasise that we can’t and we won’t sanction him."
It would be recalled that former President Obasanjo had accused Incumbent President Jonathan of squandering oil revenues, with an addition that Jonathan was a bad manager of resources.
Also speaking, National Chairman of the ruling PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, argued that the party had worked enough to earn the confidence of the voters in the zone.
According to him, "The assumption is that the PDP will play second fiddle to the APC in the South West in this election, but those who have such an assumption are in for a shocker because the PDP has worked very hard over the past four years in wards and local government areas of the entire South West geopolitical zone.
"We are confident the opposition will find themselves in the shades far behind because people in the South West are very intelligent people; they don’t just throw away their votes, they calculate and discern the characteristics of the Presidential candidates before they commit their votes.
"With Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, our former President and Board of Trustees Chairman, there (in Ogun), we believe he will not work against us despite what people assume in the contrary, we will win."
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