Obasanjo fires another letter, quits PDP

Former
Nigerian
leader, Olusegun Obasanjo has penned another
letter, this time to Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the
National chairman of the ruling People's
Democratic Party, resigning his membership of the
party.
In the one-page letter dated 7 january, Obasanjo
declared that he would, temporarily, cease to be a
member of the party or participate in any political
activity at any level, unless the party dissociated
itself from businessman Buruji Kashamu, who
appears to be the leader of the party in Obasanjo's
Ogun state and the country's western region.
Obasanjo: another letter to PDP chairman
Declaring Kashamu as unfit for any leadership post
in the party, he described him as a drug baron who
has cases to answer in the United States of
America.
Buruji Kashamu
The full text of the three-paragraph letter reads:
Dear Chairman,
"While I believe that a good and truly national
political party must be a microcosm of the nation in
its membership, made up of all sorts of characters
from near-saints to near-satan, I also believe that
on no account should a known habitual criminal
that is wanted abroad to face criminal charges
levelled against him be extolled as a political leader
in a respectable and wholesome nation-building
political party.
" Buruji Kashamu has been so extolled in PDP in
South-West geo-political zone which I personally
find unsavoury. Politics played by any national
political party must have morality, decency,
discipline, principles and leadership examples as
cardinal practices of the party. I have attached here
recent documents that clearly indicate that your
extolled PDP Zonal Leader in the South-West zone
of Nigeria and an indigene of Ogun State is, to say
the least, not a credit to the party as a member, let
alone being a zonal leader.
"Since I stick in my practice of party politics to the
hallowed and cherished principles enunciated
above, I take this opportunity to let you know that
while I continue to remain a card-carrying member
of PDP, I cannot and I will not subscribe to a wanted
habitual criminal being installed as my zonal leader
in the party; a criminal for whom extradition has
been requested by the US government. In the
meantime, I will consider withdrawing my activity
with PDP at local, state, zonal and national levels
until the anomalous and shameful situation is
corrected."
Thank you.
Yours Sincerely,
Olusegun Obasanjo
Buruji Kashamu's issue featured in Obasanjo's
earlier letter to President Goodluck Jonathan. And
Kashamu responded that although he was once
arrested in the UK for alleged drug offences, he was
freed and that he is not on the wanted list of the
Drug Enforcement Agency of the United States.
Buruji also stated that he was Obasnjo's political
ally in the battle to hijack the PDP from former
Ogun governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and
wondered why Obasanjo now detested him when
he once cavorted with him, when it suited him.

Sent From David Aniemeka