A purported move to reconcile former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan might have hit the rocks as indications reveal that the former president shunned the peace move made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and President Goodluck Jonathan.
Sunday Punch is reporting that Jonathan and the leadership of the PDP had planned to meet with the former President as part of the President’s visit to Ogun State on Friday. But, the former President, who had got wind of the peace move, travelled to Gambia on Thursday.
However, it was unclear if the two-time President had plans to attend the Gambia event before Jonathan’s visit.
It was reliably gathered that Obasanjo would have been part of the closed-door meeting Jonathan had with some Ogun State traditional rulers on Friday, but for his absence from the country.
An informed Presidential staff, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the former President deliberately decided to travel out of Abeokuta to avoid meeting with Jonathan on Friday owing to his disenchantment with the current President.
His words, “I can tell you authoritatively that Baba’s (Obasanjo) problem with the President and the PDP is the promotion of Kashamu.”
“I will consider withdrawing my activity with PDP at local, state, zonal and national levels until the anomalous and shameful situation is corrected,” he had said.
The aide maintained that rather than address Obasanjo’s complaint, the PDP had appointed Kashamu the Chairman of its Mobilisation Committee in the South-West.
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