Suspend Obasanjo now, Fayose tells PDP

Ekiti State Gov­ernor, Ayodele Fayose has again attacked for­mer President Olusegun Obasanjo over what he called an open castigation of President Goodluck Jonathan by the ex-pres­ident. Fayose who described the recent visit of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors to Obasanjo as unwarranted, unnecessary and uncalled for, urged PDP as a party to stop con­doning indiscipline, saying “nobody should be treated as being bigger than the party.” Fayose added that Obasanjo who does not ap­preciate others, deserves no respect, adding “no amount
of mudslinging from him will stop President Good­luck Jonathan’s re-election in 2015.” The governor said vis­iting Obasanjo to plead with him to rescind his decision not to participate in the party’s activities was capable of encourag­ing other members of the party to openly disrespect the office of President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed forces as being done by Obasanjo. Governor Fayose who called for the immediate suspension of the former president from the PDP, said “A man who has re­fused to respect the office of the President of Nigeria that he once occupied does not also deserve respect from anyone.” He urged the party to set a panel to probe Obasanjo’s anti-party activities. The governor, who de­scribed Obasanjo as one of the major problems of Ni­geria, added that the former president’s open castigation of President Jonathan was unbecoming of someone who led the country for 11 years and allegedly wasted billions of naira in his at­tempt to perpetuate himself in office beyond the consti­tutionally recognised two terms. “Have you ever heard a former president of the United States of America (USA) openly abusing a sitting president of the country? “Does it mean that for­mer USA president, Bill Clinton agreed with all the policies of George W. Bush and the incumbent president, Barack Obama? Obasanjo is behaving un­presidentially and he must be told to respect himself”, the governor stated. Speaking further, Fayose said Obasanjo was already a member of the opposition of All Progressives Con­gress (APC) and that he was pushing for one of his loyalists to be the party’s Vice presidential candidate. He said; “Obasanjo is a man who can never be pleased. His principle of life is; if it is not his way, it must not be another per­son’s way. “Even if President Jona­than gives Obasanjo his blood today, he (Obasanjo) cannot change because he is already necks deep in the APC agenda, with his eyes on the vice presidential ticket of the party. “Therefore, no amount of visits by PDP governors can make him change his mind about President Jona­than, whom he hates not be­cause he has not performed, but because he (Jonathan) did not hand over his Presi­dency to him.”