Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has told the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to purge itself of “bad eggs and hypocrites” if it intends to control state power in 2023.
Obasanjo said this on Sunday evening when Southwest PDP leaders led by the party’s national vice chairman (South West), Eddy Olafeso, visited him at his pent-house residence inside Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The elder statesman told his guests that PDP needs to get its house in order to act as a vibrant voice for the public to the government.
Obasanjo said: “I knew PDP would lose election in 2015 because it was clear. And I knew PDP will need to be rebuilt after losing the election.
“You need what I call critical mass of committed people, and come rain, come shine they are committed. With that, you can make Nigeria better.
“You see peoples’ faces beautiful but you don’t know what each person harbours inside of him. If you discover a bad egg, remove such a person. And if such person has learnt his or her lessons there can still be room to accommodate the person.
“Politically speaking, you can’t be my friend if you don’t buy into the Nigeria’s project. For me, till death, I will continue to push for a better Nigeria.
“I said if you compare the two of them (referring to Atiku and Buhari); with what I know and all I have written about the incumbent which they have decided to cover up, Atiku is better than the incumbent by far.”
Some of those present at the meeting were Senate minority leader, Biodun Olujimi; former Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; PDP candidate for Ekiti State governorship election in 2018, Olusola Eleka.
