Breaking News: Obasanjo tears PDP membership card in public

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday
left his guests at his Hilltop mansion in Abeokuta
with bated breath when he tore his Peoples
Democratic Party membership card in their
presence.
The guests, who are leaders of the PDP from
Obasanjo’s ward around his former residence in
Ita Eko, where he registered, visited the ex-
president to express their concern with his recent
utterances against the government of President
Goodluck Jonathan and what he considered as the
President’s role in the postponement of the
general elections from February to March.
Obasanjo had alleged on Saturday that Jonathan
had a “grand plan” to scuttle democracy in the
country through the poll shift, accusing the
President of trying to win the presidential poll
“through hook or crook.”
The guests in Abeokuta had told the former Head
of State that they had come to plead with him to
stop his criticisms of the incumbent president.
They also informed him of the feelers that they
were getting that the leaders of the party were
planning to expel him from the party.
Obasanjo asked his guests if they were with their
PDP membership card, which some of them
produced.
He subsequently asked for his own, which
someone brought to him.
He then directed the leader of the team to tear the
card in shreds, telling the visitors that he was no
longer a member of the ruling party.
The former president had last year resigned his
membership of the party, when he was the
Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, arguing
that he could no longer be in the same party and
be led in the South-West by someone he referred
to as a confirmed drug baron.