Former Minister of Agriculture and founding member of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Jonah Madugu, has described the visit
of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders to former President
Olusegun Obasanjo as mere window shopping, saying that the visit has
no psychological effect on the PDP.
Speaking with
journalist in Jos, Dr Madugu said the visit clearly depicted that most
politicians in the opposition party had no principle and conscience,
adding that those who visited former President Obasanjo were his
antagonists who derided him both within and outside the government.
“They
perceived the former president’s letter to President Goodluck Jonathan
as an opportunity to woo Obasanjo to their side and he is fallen prey.
The question is at what time did Obsanjo become their lackey. As far as
we are concerned in the PDP, they are simply on window shopping looking
for opportunity.”
According to him, the body language of former
President Obasanjo in the past two years coupled with his
visit to
Jigawa State and his recent letter to President Jonathan were pointers
to the fact that he wanted to create confusion to pave the way for the
Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, in 2015.
He said, “
We
don’t understand his style of leadership, he brought in the incumbent
president and on the other side he is trying to create opportunity for
Governor Sule Lamido. A faithful party member cannot
behave like that, if there is any misunderstanding between him and the
president, he should have gone to him and treat the matter as a family
issue.
“The letter he wrote is not in his best interest as a
leader. If it was during his tenure that a past leader wrote him such a
letter, he would not have accommodated it, he would have gone after that
fellow. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”“As
an individual the former President Obasanjo has lost his focus but PDP
has not. We therefore advise him as a statesman we respect a lot to
retrace his steps of else we will forget him”
Dr. Madugu said the
ruling party PDP is not disturbed by the visit and other moves of the
APC as being portray by some people adding that People’s Democratic
Party is till at the vantage position to win election comes 2015.
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