OBJ, An Embarassment To PDP - BoT Member

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees, Alhaji Shauib Oyedokun, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an embarrassment to the ruling party.

Oyedokun, a former National Deputy Chairman of the party, spoke in Osogbo on Sunday.

He accused Obasanjo of being the cause of the crises besetting the PDP, even as he rained curses on PDP members he accused of seeking the destruction of the party.

According to the Osun-born politician, Obasanjo’s activities in recent times are capable of causing the disintegration of the party in the South-West.

He said it was unfortunate that the PDP in Ogun State, where the former national leader of the party hails from, had been in disarray.

“The PDP is disintegrating in the state of the man we call our leader,” Oyedokun said.

PDP BoT Chairmanship Update: Tukur Must Go - Governors

THE internal strife within the Peoples Democratic Party deepened on Thursday with President Goodluck Jonathan’s intervention failing to pacify the PDP governors who are adamant in their resolve to remove their party’s National Chairman, Bamangar Tukur.

Jonathan’s three-hour meeting with the governors at the Villa on Thursday, sources confirmed to The PUNCH, failed to extract a commitment from the states’ chief executives to sheathe their swords in the battle against Tukur.

Myriads of assurances from party chieftains to the contrary notwithstanding, the governors were said to be bent on removing Tukur over his alleged meddling in the Adamawa PDP politics and unilateral dissolution of the executive council in the state chapter of the party.