Nearly two weeks after former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, ordered his Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) membership card to be publicly shredded, the national leader of the party has hinted that the version of the card torn is expired.
According to the national secretary of the party, Prof Wale Oladipo the torn card was the one issued by the former acting Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Barage and not the one issued by its current leadership.
He made this known in Abuja on Tuesday, while receiving some student union leaders under the aegis of Students Mobilization Network Group(SMNG).
“Baba is over 80 and my mother is around Obasanjo’s age. When you reach that age, you do things that only you can explain.
“Secondly, you will see that Baba did not tear our card. He asked somebody ostensibly to do the tearing and I am assuring you that the card that was torn was not the current PDP card.
“The current PDP card is signed by Mu’azu and Professor Oladipo. So the card he tore was a Baraje card, which we were going to destroy anyway. So I think Baba started it.
“Lastly, Baba is a very intelligent man. When Baba was helping us, he knew that a lot of people could have complained that they could have voted for PDP but Baba was there. You know when a big tree exists in a big forest, smaller trees cannot grow. If that big tree leaves, 10 to 20 smaller trees will grow.
“In politics, one big tree has a vote, while 20 small trees have 20 votes. If you do the arithmetic, I am a scientist, I know that head or tail, it is a win win situation for PDP,” the national secretary said.
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