Lamido, Mu’azu meet over Obasanjo

The Jigawa State Governor, Sule
Lamido and the National Chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, met in Abuja
on Wednesday on how to convince
former President Olusegun
Obasanjo to return to the party.
Investigations by our
correspondent in Abuja on
Thursday indicated that the
meeting took place at the Abuja
residence of Mu’azu.
The meeting, it was learnt, was at
the instance of Mu’azu, who was
said to be worried about the
political implications of Obasanjo’s
decision to dump the PDP.
Obasanjo, while announcing his
decision to leave the party where
he was once its Chairman of Board
of Trustees, on Monday, also
ordered that his membership card
be torn to shreds.
At the meeting between the
governor and the national
chairman of the party, it was learnt
that Mu’azu expressed sadness
over the turn of events in the party,
which has been ruling since the
country returned to democratic
rule in 1999.
One of the aides of the chairman,
who was at the meeting, said the
former governor of Bauchi State
was “visibly sad that the once-
cohesive party” was becoming a
joke in the country.
It was learnt that at the meeting,
the national chairman of the party
sought the opinion of Lamido on
how to approach the tirade being
thrown by the former President at
the party and its Presidential
candidate, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
The chairman’s aide, who spoke
with our correspondent on the
condition of anonymity, said that
the governor warned the party
against trading accusations with
the former President.
Lamido is considered as one of the
governors very close to the former
President.
The chairman’s said, “The governor
warned the party against fighting
the former President. He also asked
Mu’azu to warn some members of
the party, including a governor
from the southern part of the
country to stop abusing the former
President.
“He told the chairman that the
party and the President do not
have the capacity to fight the
President, saying that before the
former President would open his
mouth to say a word, he has his
facts.
“Besides, he added that there are
other sympathisers of the former
President in the party and that any
attempt to rubbish him
(Obasanjo)would make many of
them uncomfortable.”
But the party has said it would not
relent in its desire to have the
former President return to its fold.
The National Publicity Secretary of
the party, Olisa Metuh, who spoke
with our correspondent in Abuja on
Thursday, said that having led the
party to victories in the past, it
would be wrong for the party to let
its former chairman of Board of
Trustees leave like that.

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