JOIN APC NOW, LEAVE PDP ALONE! YORUBA YOUTH GROUP TELLS OBASANJO

Yoruba youths under the aegis of Afenifere Renaissance Youth Congress (ARYG) have advised former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to stop seeking to destroy the Peoples D
emocratic Party, PDP, and to instead join the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The group which comprises members of the PDP in the South-west zone, also berated Obasanjo for openly criticising President Goodluck Jonathan, saying it’s not statesmanlike, especially as he (Obasanjo) has unfettered access to the Presidential Villa.

Leader of the group, Mr Abimbola Owolabi, said it was hard to believe that Obasanjo was still a member of the PDP. “Obasanjo is not only denigrating the presidency, the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Party, which he claims to be a member of by his constant lies, unwarranted attacks and mischievous blackmail to portray President Jonathan as weak, corrupt and dictatorial but also manifestly executing the propaganda of the APC whose members he now hobnobs with.

“These days, there is a complete sync between Obasanjo’s utterances and those of Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC spokesperson. “After listening to General Obasanjo’s lies that President Jonathan is running a corrupt government and incapable of dealing with the insurgency problems in the North, at the launch of the auto-biography of Retired Justice Mustapha Akanbi, we have come to the conclusion that the former president does not mean well for this country and the PDP.

“How can Obasanjo who elevated the bribing of National Assembly members, especially during his ill-fated Third Term agenda, to a state policy during his regime point finger of guilt at President Jonathan? Or does Obasanjo think that Nigerians have such a short memory as to forget how he nearly emptied the national treasury to the lawmakers in his desperate quest for an unconstitutional third term in office? “The same man (Obasanjo) who is now accusing Jonathan of working against democracy has been the worst enemy of democracy in the country.

“He deployed troops to Odi and leveled an entire village without achieving any meaningful results over the Niger Delta militancy only to leave the mess for the late President Umaru Yar’Adua and Jonathan (who was then the vice president) to clear. “It was Obasanjo’s recklessness and complete disrespect for the rule of law that prompted his successor to quickly adopt rule of law as the mantra of his administration,” Owolabi said.