The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), today claimed that the membership card dismembered by former President Olusegun Obasanjo had expired.
Besides, the party argued that the card owned by Chief Obasanjo was signed by the party’s former Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje who had since decamped to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
National Secretary of the ruling party, Dr. Wale Oladipo, explained that the card had been changed, with an addition that the current membership card is jointly signed by him and National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
According to Oladipo, "Baba (Obasanjo) is over 80 years 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 Oladipo. So the card he tore was a Baraje card, which we were going to destroy anyway. So I think Baba started it.
"Lastly Baba is a very intelligent man. When 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 exits in a big forest, smaller trees cannot grow. If that big tree leaves, 10 to 20 smaller trees will grow. In politics one big tree has a 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."
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