2019: PDP chieftain reveals Obasanjo’s real agenda

Chief Alexander Mwolwus, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Plateau State, on Tuesday lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his recent comments.

He stated that the retired General’s plot was to discredit the party, while promoting his personal interest ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Obasanjo, had in a statement on Monday, told Nigerians not to take the apology offered by PDP serious, and had described it as a corrupt political party.

But Mwolwus described Obasanjo’s pronouncement as “very unfortunate and selfish in nature”.

He described PDP’s apology to Nigerians through its National Chairman as “a right step in the right direction’”, adding that “only great men own up to their mistakes”.

“If PDP had apologized willfully, having owned up to its mistakes, I shouldn’t be castigated for that because every human organisation has its own limitations”, he told NAN.

“Even though OBJ’s plots to discredit PDP for his own political party, he seems to have missed it and not knowing what he is doing.

“He is the most ungrateful Nigerian leader, who never knew how PDP was formed.

“But all the same, his party will not be anywhere close to having the confidence of Nigerians if that is the way he wants to go drumming for support to it.

“Obasanjo was never a member of PDP but out of sheer pity and magnanimity, the party brought him out of prison and made him president on a platter of Gold”, he added.

Mwolwus futher said “we made him who he is today, yet he had the guts to spit and shout against us”.

The PDP chieftain accused the ex-president of introducing corruption and corrupting the National Assembly with his failed third term ambition.

On the list of looters released by the Federal Government, Mwolwus called it lopsided, wondering why the names of those who jumped from PDP to APC were omitted.

“By that list, President Buhari ended up disappointing his ardent admirers and supporters.

“If people who looted and jumped into APC and those in APC that were caught red handed are not in the list, but only PDP members, then there is question mark on it”, he noted.