Nigeria News Forum

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the Peoples Democratic Party as a dying political party which needs to be taken to an intensive care unit. He said this on Saturday at his Abeokuta Presidential Hilltop residence in an interview with journalists, after emerging from a closed-door meeting with a factional national chairman of the PDP, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff. Sheriff and Obasanjo Obasanjo said Sheriff called him on Friday that he was coming to visit him, and he had to oblige him. The former president explained that the factional chairman briefed him about the crisis rocking the party. Obasanjo, who was a former chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, said the PDP had lost its soul, and said he wished Sheriff would not be an undertaker that would bury it. “The PDP of today, if you can talk of a party again as PDP, its soul has been taken out of it and those who allowed that to happen are unperturbed about the fate of the party and indeed the fate of t...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has denied an online report quoting him as saying that he had warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.  The report, which was credited to him through his former Chief Press Secretary, Alex Nwokedi, in an on-line publication,  Post Nigeria,  dated September 3, 2016, claiming that Obasanjo had warned President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019. President Buhari and Obasanjo  But Obasanjo has described the report as “completely false and destructive by those behind it.”  The former President, in a statement issued by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, in Abeokuta on Sunday, said there has been no communication between him and Nwokedi in the last three years, and wondered why any news would be attributed to him, as published by the on-line publication.  The statement read in part, “My belief is that democracy allows for anybody including President Buhari for that...